All Entries Tagged With: "workflow"
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, [...]
Tools Talk: Julia Child Understood the Nature of Work
While expertise, good humor, humanity, and care are words that immediately come to mind when describing Julia Child, the iconic chef personified something else – she understood the nature of her work. She recognized the role it played, the value it brought, the actions involved in creating it, and the opportunity costs in choosing certain [...]
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 [...]
