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Focus Periods
The Golden Ratio provides a range of focus periods for different sized tasks. This helps you estimate how fast you can complete a task before getting started. Each value is in minutes.
What Is the Golden Ratio?
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Spiral uses The Golden Ratio (or Fibonacci Series) to help you estimate task size, a technique used regularly by high performing software developers and project managers.
The Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio is a sacred proportion known in the ancient world, and often found in nature.
It can be derived by starting with 1 + 1 = 2, and then continuing to add the previous two numbers in the series together.
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 5 = 8
5 + 8 = 13
8 + 13 = 21
This creates what is know as the Fibonacci Series which is 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89...
The increase between each number in the Fibonacci Series averages out to a number called phi, The Golden Ratio (which is a little over 60%).
Why Use It to Estimate Task Size?
The Golden Ratio creates a relative increase with each step, which helps you estimate time-frames more easily than with a linear scale.
Making estimates for tasks will help you break down work, challenge you to get things done quickly, and encourage you to stay focused on each task until completion.
Not convinced? The Fibonacci series is also used in project management and software development for the same purpose - to help estimate task size.
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