Every morning each of those monkeys needs your attention – you have three options:

• Shoot the monkey
  By doing the task you shoot the monkey (and get it off your back). Assuming there is no requirement for you to work on the disposal of the monkey corpse this is the easiest way to ensure that task goes away.
• Feed the monkey
  Finding some fruit to feed a particular monkey equates to doing just enough to keep the task away until tomorrow whether that’s writing a holding email or putting an empty bucket under the leak in the ceiling. Feeding monkeys isn’t the best course of action – monkey food costs money and you have to do it every day – better to shoot the monkey today and get the job done.
• Give the monkey away
  Maybe you know someone better equipped to feed the monkey, or better qualified to shoot it? If you’re determined to have less monkeys in the cage by tomorrow morning you can always resort to giving them away. Be warned, it might not make you popular – who wants a hungry monkey?

Whatever you do with your monkeys it’s wise to keep track of them, I’d recommend Scrumpy – a new web application for tracking tasks, managing a to-do list, working together and getting stuff done. I made it – well me and another guy.

(No animals – primate or otherwise – were harmed in the writing of this blog post)

Cast an eye over the Scrumpy website and you’ll discover that Scrumpy is a project planning and management web application for all sorts of projects, big or small – it’ll be great, you’ll love it and all being well it’ll be launching pretty soon… if you want to be kept up-to-date with exactly when, head on over to the website and tap in your email address.

More details to be revealed soon.