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The oven light is still broken. The project is done anyway.
Pruning your project list is more than hitting delete. Four exits for stalled projects and two questions that show when dropping one is right.
Productivity and implementation / Vienna / German and English
You know the method.
I build the system around it.
I set up digital work systems that are still standing after the third hectic month. No slides, no checklist to take home. We build it together, in your tools, until it runs.
3,000+ people trained
300+ trainings and coachings
1998 in IT since
20 years of own practice
01 The problem
It worked for two weeks. Then everyday life came back.
You read the book. Maybe you even did a training. It worked as long as you remembered to keep it up.
That is rarely your fault. It happens because method and tooling are taught separately. The trainer explains contexts and next actions but has never seen your calendar permissions. The IT consultant cleans up the tool stack without knowing what you need it for.
Most productivity consultants stop where your IT starts. I sit on both sides.
02 Work
What I do
Four formats. All four end with something that runs, not with a handout.
01 Workflow setup I build your digital work system. In your real tools, with your real material, until it stands. €5,9002 to 4 appointmentsindividuals 02 Digital Workplace Audit A stocktake for teams. What works, what is duplicated, what costs time every day. from €12,0003 to 5 weeksfrom 5 people 03 Automation and AI We look for the places where the same thing happens by hand every day. Then I build the automation for it. from €15,0004 to 12 weeksteam, department 04 Sparring One fixed appointment a month for the decisions that keep getting postponed. No method training, no personal development. I am the second opinion when you have to weigh something up technically or organisationally. €1,200 a monthcancel any monthfounders, executives
03 Evidence
Where this comes from
Certified GTD trainer
Over 3,000 people in over 300 trainings and coaching engagements. Industries: energy, banking, pharma, automotive, startups.
Guest on the GTD podcast
The GTD podcast by the David Allen Company, episode 324. Listen
Habit Lab
Every Friday I lead a closed group. One hour, two entry windows a year, a waiting list in between.
In IT since 1998
Siemens / Next47, Artesyn / Emerson, Salamander before that. From networked point-of-sale systems to the cloud-based architecture of a corporate venture arm.
Managing Partner at jaegerdrei
Operations and IT. Cross-departmental project management, with full accountability for the result. jaegerdrei.com
20 years of my own practice
I do not teach Getting Things Done because I read the book. I have worked this way for twenty years.
04 Built here
I do not recommend software I would not build myself.
My software is called Space System because it does what my work with people does: it makes room for what matters.
In practice it is a desktop app for tasks, notes and files. Everything sits in real folders on your disk, as Markdown. No account, no forced cloud, no proprietary format.
05 Notes
Written down
What comes up in the work, written down so I do not have to explain it twice.
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Everything under control. Until someone asks to see the budget file.
Distraction-free Windows 11 setup: notifications, built-in ads, the taskbar. Every switch with its path, plus notifications and the Dock on a Mac.
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