From Kevan Lee on the Trello blog:
Use the lean startup philosophy
- Take your big idea
- Find out the parts you don’t quite know
- Build something small in order to learn
- Measure
- Learn
- Take your lessons back to your idea and start the cycle again
Make a roadmap for your side-project
- Kanban: visualize your work load and limit the number of open todos in process
- Scrum: break down problem into smaller parts
- Sprints: time intervals for completing todos
Automate work for yourself
- Use calendar reminders
- Use a side-project twitter account to follow relevant users
Never set a deadline
- You are the only one managing yourself
- Side projects are meant to be fun
- Don’t treat side projects like work