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Would You, Could You on a Plane?

As a matter of fact, yes. I boarded the first leg of my flight from Seattle to Hanoi. I had 19 hours of flying ahead of me. I also had a backlog, and no wifi. Agile Zen was not going to be useful for me. So, I opened Open Office Writer and made a quick [...]

Complex Lives Pt 2: Visualizing Real Work

In part one of Complex Lives, we set a Future in Progress (FIP) limit for Jessica, a busy and active single mom. Her goals were overwhelming her ability to get things done. So we reigned them in by giving her a FIP limit. That was step one. Step two is visualizing that FIP. Jessica was [...]

Complex Lives Pt 1: Jessica’s Future In Progress

Ready –> Doing –> Done Life presents us with opportunities, and so we’ve no choice but to take on concurrent projects. Unfortunately they don’t always conform to that simple Ready –> Doing –> Done value stream. Last month I was in San Francisco giving lectures on Personal Kanban at Stanford and Keller. My host for [...]

Personal Kanban Interviews on the Business 901 Podcast

Last month, I had the good fortune to be on Joe Dager’s Business 901 Podcast.  The topic, of course, was Personal Kanban. Joe edited the conversation into two parts which can be found below: Part 1 Powered by Podbean.com Part 2 Powered by Podbean.com

Announcing the Launch of iKan, the Personal Kanban iPhone App

You asked for it, and we listened. Today we are proud to announce the launch of the first Personal Kanban iPhone app, iKan. When we set out to build it, we decided to focus on a few key things: 1. Small Screen Many Tasks –  We wanted to make the best use of the screen [...]

Work / Life Balance

I’ve been surprised lately by the number of people asking me about work/life balance. We feel we are undervaluing our family ties, our personal goals, our community involvement, our hobbies and our art. Oftentimes our work makes us feel isolated – we feel alone and seek meaning in our lives. Amusingly, we feel like we’ve [...]

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