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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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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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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
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Tagged assessments, efficiency, HR, office, performance review, retrospectives, reviews
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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
Making Waste Explicit
Noticing waste serves no purpose. Understanding it does. Whether we seek to manage waste or attempt to eliminate it entirely, we need to know how much of it exists and what form it takes – what’s its volume, its shape, its … Continue reading
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Why Retrospectives?
In both Agile and Lean management there are points called “retrospectives,” regular and ritualized moments where a team stops to reflect. Checking processes for only a few minutes lets you re-orient the course of your work. These retrospectives allow a team the … Continue reading
