(Pomodoro Technique)

(by Francesco Cirillo)

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Author: Francesco Cirillo

Date of publication v1.0: 19 October 2006
Date of publication v1.3: 15 June 2007
Date of Russian translation: 07 June 2014, Alexey Yastrebov
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2.3.2.

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2.3.3.

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2.3.4.

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2.5.1.

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3.2.

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3.3.

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3.5.2.

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3.7.

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3.11.

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3.12.

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2: ( Do Today Sheet) ................................................. 39
3: (Activity Inventory List) ................................................. 40

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(1)

Charles Baudelaire, I fiori del male, Feltrinelli, 1991; ISBN 88-07-82028-5.

(2)
(3)
(4)

Kent Beck, Software-In-Process: A New/Old Project Metric,

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/2433183/0.
Henri Bergson, Levoluzione creatrice, Cortina Raffaello, 2002; ISBN 88-70-78780-X.
Jerome Bruner, La mente a pi dimensioni, Laterza 2003; ISBN 88-420-6860-8

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Jane B. Burka e Lenora M. Yuen, Procrastination, Perseus Books, 1983; ISBN 0-201-10190-4.

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Tony Buzan, 1982, The Brain Users Guide, E.P. Dutton

_______, Make the Most of Your Mind, Fireside Edition, 1988; ISBN 0-671-49519-4
_______, Use Both Sides of Your Brain, Penguin Book, 1991; ISBN 0-452-26603-3.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Lenigma del tempo, Zanichelli, 1996, ISBN 88-08-09056-6.
_______, Verit e metodo, Studi Bompiani, 2001, ISBN 88-452-5039-3.
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