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Category Archives: DesignPatterns
A WIP Workout: Pomodoro and Personal Kanban
Pomodoro is the workout: Personal Kanban is the trainer. Continue reading
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InfoPak 1 – Personal Kanban at the World Bank: A Case Study
Personal Kanban at the World Bank – Small Team Rapid Development View more documents from ourfounder. This is the first in a series of Modus Cooperandi’s InfoPaks. They are downloadable, and work like a narrative whitepaper. Think of them as … Continue reading
The "Man, That Was Awful" Approach to Personal Kanban
Kanban is meant to be epiphany heavy, but process light. These approaches are meant to provide simple means to visualize how your work actually flows. Some tasks are going to be horrible. They are going to take longer than you … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Task Based Personal Kanban Approach in Detail
Imagine you have a number of tasks that need completing, and you need to visualize the state of each task. Let’s say that each of these tasks is going to involve several days of information exchange with others. Now let’s … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Throughput Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
In the previous posts we looked at the Time Capsule workaround to having a backlog cluttered with small tasks of varying importance. This throughput approach might help mitigate the need to use that approach. Kanban tends to have swim lanes … Continue reading
