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Category Archives: Applications
Pomodoro Daisuki–Session Based Personal Kanban and Pomodoro
Today I installed the Pomodoro Daisuki app in Chrome and thought I’d give a quick experience report. So far today, Tonianne and I have run our entire workday using Pomodoro Daisuki. Yes, it has the usual Pomodoro functionality, but some … Continue reading
Would You, Could You on a Plane?
As a matter of fact, yes. I boarded the first leg of my flight from Seattle to Hanoi. I had 19 hours of flying ahead of me. I also had a backlog, and no wifi. Agile Zen was not going … Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, task types, visual control, workflow
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Announcing the Launch of iKan, the Personal Kanban iPhone App
You asked for it, and we listened. Today we are proud to announce the launch of the first Personal Kanban iPhone app, iKan. When we set out to build it, we decided to focus on a few key things: 1. … Continue reading
InfoPak 3 – Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow
Info Pak3 Personal Kanban Design Patterns View more documents from Jim Benson. Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its third Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow we present a series … Continue reading
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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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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 … 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
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
Retrospectives and Kanban Evolution in Action
Marc Bless has a great post about his personal scrum board evolving into a personal kanban. His personal retrospectives showed him a need to limit WIP, so he created a special section for WIP, while not losing track of his … Continue reading