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Towards a Leaner Santa: Holiday “Do” Date-ban
Chalk it up to a decade with the nuns and my time as a Girl Scout (always be prepared!), but I obsess over details. Having my “stuff” in one bag or my proverbial ducks in a row is how I delude myself into thinking I can make sense of my universe. Still, I spend many [...]
WIP can be Imposed
Please don’t feel bad if you find you’ve lost control of your WIP. The two rules of Personal Kanban: 1. Visualize Your Work 2. Limit WIP With a little practice, #1 becomes easy…second nature, even. Number 2 is, well, pretty much a bitch to master. It is better stated as a goal. On a good [...]
InfoPak 3 – Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow
Info Pak3 Personal Kanban Design Patterns View more documents from Jim Benson. 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 [...]
Undertow and Churn: Workflow isn’t Always Linear
In Personal Kanban, our primary step is to define our workflow. Workflows tend to be linear, and often look like this: Waiting –>Doing–>Done or Outline –> Pre-writing –> Draft –> Edit –> Final Draft or Backlog –> Coding –> Testing –> Integration –> Release Unfortunately, life isn’t always that straightforward. A few weeks ago on Twitter, [...]
Getting “Personal” with Your Kanban
So why call it “personal” if I can use it with my family, in the classroom, or with a team at the office? In life and in business, we create value. For Personal Kanban, “personal” relates to personal value. Personal Kanban tracks and visualizes items of personal value – tasks, work, and goals. Industrial-style kanban [...]
WIP and Priorization: Recommended Portions
You’ve been hiking all morning and the mercury is nearing 100. You’re parched. You need water – lots of it. But even in your thirst, you want that water to be manageable. Which holds more water – a lake or a drinking glass? Which will satisfy your thirst – a fire hose or a drinking [...]
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 [...]
Save the Date…for a Tweet-a-ban!
When: November 17, 2009 Where: Twitter Hashtag: #pkflow Save the date because Modus Cooperandi is hosting a “Tweet-a-ban.” Whether you’re a Personal Kanban practitioner or just have an interest in improving your productivity, join in on the asynchronous, 24 hour long global conversation. For details click here. Share this postBloglinesDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlStumbleUpon
Pulling in Batches – The “Today” Column
We don’t always pull one task at a time. Every day, cognitively, we pull in batches.
InfoPak 2 – Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban
Personal Kanban 101 View more presentations from Jim Benson. Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its second Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban we discuss the essentials for getting your board started. Topics addressed include how to establish value stream, backlog and WIP, [...]
