All Entries Tagged With: "gtd"
Respect Your Backlog and Manage It
Your backlog is bigger than it should be and it needs to be managed. Everyday people tell us how they are overwhelmed by their backlog, and cannot possibly manage it within a Personal Kanban because it could contain hundreds or thousands of tasks. Let’s examine this. On Stephen Smith’s blog, he describes using Personal Kanban [...]
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 [...]
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 using [...]
A WIP Workout: Pomodoro and Personal Kanban
Pomodoro is the workout: Personal Kanban is the trainer.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Visualizing the Flow: Polar-State Based Personal Kanban with Habit Trackers
James Mallison shared a bit of insight and I’m passing it along. In a recent post he discussed issues very close to what I call visualization and flow. He begins with a little story about Jerry Seinfeld: A couple of years ago there was a little story doing the rounds about a bit of productivity [...]
GTD & Kanban: Series Overview
For a long time I have been a Getting Things Done (GTD) advocate in both my personal and professional life, starting from the basics and working my way up to a full blown implementation in various paper and electronic forms over the years. GTD has been a huge help, yet I have always felt there [...]
The Time Capsule Personal Kanban in Detail
Individual work is a real PITA. Over time, we invariably amass a lot of small tasks that are necessary but not urgent. We end up with a number of things that aren’t high priorities but, the longer we put them off the more they will eventually eat up a lot of our time. Such tasks [...]
