Related to Pull vs push method for getting projects. Read about this first in Slow Productivity.

This is especially useful when you don’t have control over how work gets assigned to you.

The core of this system are the two buckets where projects live -

1. On hold
2. In progress

Every new work comes to the on hold bucket. Things you are actually working on are in progress bucket. The key point is to ensure a max number of projects in the in progress bucket - three.

Once a project is done we add a new project from the on-hold bucket. If for example, writing a book is a project in the on-hold bucket, what you pull in the in-progress bucket is ‘write chapter 2’.

When a new project request, we need to ingest it properly, by:

1. Acknowledging the requester
2. Giving a time line
3. Giving a list of open projects you have
4. Any information you need from them

The final step is to ensure proper cleanup of the on hold bucket on schedule.