11 Planning and Productivity tips for Python developers

This week we talk with Sambhavi Dhanabalan about productivity as a developer. She shares 11 tips from her experience: 3 around planning and 8 generic tips.

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We also talk about her background, wins and a book she’s reading.

Enjoy this insightful conversation with Sambhavi. We’re sure that if you follow her tips, you will make strides in your productivity as a Python developer!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro fragment, don’t sit on a bug
00:22 Intro music
00:47 Episode and guest intro, meet Sambhavi
01:30 Sambhavi’s background
02:53 Round of wins
03:55 Brand building and sharing your work
04:33 Topic intro: productivity tips
05:33 Why did you write this article?
07:30 P for Planning …  #1 – Create a weekly planner
09:32 #2 – Use Github/Gitlab project
11:48 #3 – Review your planned work
13:46 Reviewing tactics using your calendar
15:17 P for Productivity … #1 – Deep focus time
17:57 #2 – Pomodoro technique
19:58 #3 – Walk for 30 minutes
21:47 #4 – Spend not more than 30 minutes on a bug/issue
23:55 Team leaders, protect your people from this
24:25 #5 – Use GitHub CoPilot, if there is an option
27:30 #6 – Integrate git in your IDE (VS Code)
29:47 #7 – Timebox a few tasks (not directly related to work)
31:47 #8 – Wind off time (prevent burnout)
33:55 Reach out to Sambhavi if this helped
34:24 Book tip: Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)
36:05 Thanks, final words and wrap up
37:18 Outro music

Links:
– Sambhavi’s article
– Reach out to Sambhavi on LinkedIn
– Recommended book: Four Thousand Weeks
– Our PDM coaching program
– Our Pybites Productivity course

Thanks for listening and we’ll be back next week with a fresh new episode …