All Entries Tagged With: "wip"
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 to visualize [...]
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 week, [...]
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, I was asked if it is [...]
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 fountain?
Whether it [...]
Building Your First Personal Kanban
Four simple steps to starting your first personal kanban.
