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Category Archives: Expert
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 … Continue reading
Multiple Projects & Threaded WIP: Using The Big Picture for Personal Kanban
The two rules of Personal Kanban: Limit WIP and visualize your work. The truth about personal work: it’s messy. So people with messy work have been asking me for: ways to create multiple Personal Kanban(s) with unique workflows, ways to … Continue reading
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Tagged calendars, design patterns, product review, recursive projects, software, visualization
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A WIP Workout: Pomodoro and Personal Kanban
Pomodoro is the workout: Personal Kanban is the trainer. Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, gtd, pomodoro
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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
Sente and Gote in Personal Kanban
Sometimes your relationship to work is initiative based, other times it is reactive. This is simply the nature of work. It is normal, and nothing – not Personal Kanban, not GTD – is going to change that. In the game … Continue reading
Personal Kanban: Tangible Tasks Produce Prioritization
Planning and prioritizing is a wicked problem that has plagued humankind since time immemorial. – Corey Ladas Human beings want three things in life: sex, money and effective prioritization. There appears to be a logical and linear three-stage process of … Continue reading
Recursive Kanban – A Visual Control for Rapid Knowledge Work
A visual control is anything that allows a group to see their progress, and understand its relative importance. To be sure, a kanban is a visual control, but there are nevertheless some limitations to it. The biggest limitation to a … Continue reading
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Tagged experience, field work, recursive, small groups, world bank
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged flow, geography, Kaizen, visual control, work, work types
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The Cumulative Flow Diagram – Metrics in Personal Kanban
This post discusses the most powerful – but perhaps most intimidating – technique. In upcoming posts we’ll look as some less intense methods, so don’t let this post scare you. In kanban for software design, a “cumulative flow diagram” is … Continue reading
Personal Kanban for Meaningful & Measurable Performance Evaluations
Personal Kanban can come in handy at performance review time. Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Expert, Featured
Tagged assessments, efficiency, HR, office, performance review, retrospectives, reviews
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