All Entries Tagged With: "flow"
Urgent and Important: Incorporating your existing tools into Personal Kanban
We’ve devised Personal Kanban to adapt to any system you might currently use (unless of course your preferred system is utter chaos). The only two rules are visualize your work and limit work-in-progress (WIP). PK’s main goal is to get you to write things down and begin to watch how and what you complete. Last [...]
Rapture – Training Your Mind for Completion
Don’t strain your brain, paint a train You’ll be singing’ in the rain… – Blondie Your brain is a muscle. As we repeat certain actions, our “muscle memory” becomes comfortable with those actions, and programs itself to anticipate them. As it trains itself to anticipate them, it optimizes for them. This is the basis of [...]
Cadence and the Personal Kanban
After teams use a kanban to help manage their work, they see that there’s a cadence to it, an underlying rhythm to work. When a piece of work enters the group’s workflow, how long it takes to accomplish a task, how work is handed off from one person to another, how each person creates value, [...]
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 [...]
Cards are Conversations
The whole point of having a visual control is to extract information from it quickly. In this respect, the personal kanban is much like a geographic map. Geographic maps convey more than merely the physical environment, they show us things like political, historic, organizational characteristics – both real and imagined spatial constraints – which give [...]
