Category Archives: Expert

The Diffusion of Responsibility

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Jim and Tonianne

When I was an urban planning student at Michigan State University, I was part of a team involved in a large group project. We were writing a downtown redevelopment plan for Albion, a small city in southern Michigan which, like … Continue reading →

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Lean Meetings 2: Semper Gumby!

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Jim and Tonianne

Point of Order! I make a motion to rescind Roberts Rules of Order in their entirety and free us from the inflexible, outmoded, ungainly, and utterly dehumanizing parliamentary procedure! Conversations are contextual. They meander, move in unintended directions, and give … Continue reading →

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Democratize Meetings with Personal Kanban

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Jim and Tonianne

Agendas are so 20th Century. Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills are known for their exclusive neighborhoods, sprawling estates, and the people who inhabit them. They aren’t (but should be) known for their perilous and serpentine roadways. Among the most treacherous is … Continue reading →

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How I Cook

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Jim Benson

I frustrate people when I give cooking classes. They want measures. They want me to tell them what to do. Cooking isn’t like that. Cooking is about flavor, it’s about texture, it’s about the experience. It’s not about tablespoons or … Continue reading →

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Motivation Through Visualization: Seeing What is Really Important

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Jim Benson

When we wake up in the morning, we have a pretty good idea what we want to get done that day. To make those daily goals explicit, we created the Today (link) column for Personal Kanban. Our Personal Kanban serves … Continue reading →

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The Psychology of Kanban (Video)

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Jim Benson

In November, 2010, Jim Benson spoke at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden on Energizing the Individual Coder and the Psychology of Kanban. Clarity Means Completion: The Psychology of Kanban – Jim Benson from Øredev on Vimeo. .

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How We Interact with Kanban (Video)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jim Benson

In November, 2010, Jim Benson spoke at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden on Energizing the Individual Coder and the Psychology of Kanban. Personal Kanban: Optimizing the Individual Coder – Jim Benson from Øredev on Vimeo.

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Kanban for Short Intense Projects: How We Used Kanban to Visualize Our Hiring Process Workflow and Make Our Lives Easier

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Matthew Moran

This is how we used Kanban techniques to visualize our hiring workflow, empower hiring process participants, and give executives a bird’s eye view on a short term project. For many companies, hiring is something that happens in spurts rather than … Continue reading →

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Would You, Could You on a Plane?

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Jim Benson

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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When Good Tasks Go Bad

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Jim Benson

Yesterday we were introduced to Richard, who is juggling the demands of several clients trying to keep each of them happy. His largest project entails working alone on a client’s mission-critical legacy system. So in the last blog post we … Continue reading →

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