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InfoPak 3 – Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow
Info Pak3 Personal Kanban Design Patterns
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Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its third Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow we present a series of patterns for individuals as well as for small “teams.” Among the topics discussed: approaches tailored to [...]
Multiple Projects & Threaded WIP: Using The Big Picture for Personal Kanban
The two rules of Personal Kanban: Limit WIP and visualize your work.
The truth about personal work: it’s messy.
So people with messy work have been asking me for:
ways to create multiple Personal Kanban(s) with unique workflows,
ways to manage the WIP of multiple projects in one kanban,
ways to manage projects with different collaborators, and
better ways to integrate [...]
GTD & Kanban: Managing The Relationship Between Someday/Maybe & Active Projects
In my previous post, “GTD & Kanban: Similarities, Differences & Synergies Between The Two“ in this series, I talked about using Kanban for managing the flow of work, rather than having any number of projects and someday/maybe items in separate lists which are reviewed every week to a month. In this post I will describe how [...]
The “Man, That Was Awful” Approach to Personal Kanban
Kanban is meant to be epiphany heavy, but process light. These approaches are meant to provide simple means to visualize how your work actually flows. Some tasks are going to be horrible. They are going to take longer than you expect, be harder to complete than anticipated, or even just really annoy you.
In life, you [...]
GTD & Kanban: Similarities, Differences & Synergies Between The Two
In this article in the “GTD & Personal Kanban Series” we will explore the why? behind bringing GTD & Personal Kanban together.
What is Getting Things Done (GTD)?
GTD emerged as a highly effective and popular personal productivity approach in the early two thousands. The approach consists of a five stage process, a workflow to guide that [...]
Personal Kanban: Tangible Tasks Produce Prioritization
Planning and prioritizing is a wicked problem that has plagued humankind since time immemorial. – Corey Ladas
Human beings want three things in life: sex, money and effective prioritization.
There appears to be a logical and linear three-stage process of better prioritization as you become familiar with kanban. The process follows the three main characteristics of the [...]
Retrospectives and Kanban Evolution in Action
Marc Bless has a great post about his personal scrum board evolving into a personal kanban. His personal retrospectives showed him a need to limit WIP, so he created a special section for WIP, while not losing track of his tasks awaiting the actions of others.
Marc Says:
After a while I recognized the repeating problem of [...]
Mold, Mayhem & My Emergency Personal Kanban
It has been quite a month. I should have expected it. Apparently it was written in the stars.
But when a friend forwarded my horoscope that basically advised me to pull the blankets over my head and remain in bed for the next 30 days, the cynic in me summarily dismissed its warnings.
That was the same day [...]
Managing and Working Through That Ever Growing Reading List
If you are anything like me, you will have a monster reading list. Do you manage it? Do you focus on a few books at a time? If not, maybe you should, to better enjoy that fiction or help manage your reading based learning?
Problem – Too Many Books, Not Enough Time & Bad Habits
I have [...]
Every Task is Sacred
One of the primary goals of a kanban is to make value explicit. When you spend your time doing something, the reward should be observable. Even if the task is vegging out, the reward is relaxation. You should engage in no task that is valueless. When a task does not provide value, it is considered [...]
