# Back...and trying out a new more structured approach in the office...

<datetime class="hidden">2004-07-05T00:00</datetime>
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Back from my (admittedly short) break - Dad's birthday which I really wanted to be at home for this year. We're trying to get a bit more structure going at my [place of work](http://www.stormid.com/), well we had some before but as we get busier and busier we need to get a more intelligent approach going. So, the approach we've gone for is the [Agile approach using SCRUM](http://www.agilescrum.com/) - which basically provides a good fit for the approach we need - it's flexible, reduces distraction and works for single developers (many don't and are really based around team development). We're also starting to use the [ToDoList application](http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToDoList2.asp) which is really pretty cool (we previsouly used various apps for this from Project to Outlook to simple text files).