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Save the Date…for a Tweet-a-ban!
When: November 17, 2009 Where: Twitter Hashtag: #pkflow Save the date because Modus Cooperandi is hosting a “Tweet-a-ban.” Whether you’re a Personal Kanban practitioner or just have an interest in improving your productivity, join in on the asynchronous, 24 hour … Continue reading
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Pulling in Batches – The "Today" Column
We don’t always pull one task at a time. Every day, cognitively, we pull in batches. Continue reading
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Tagged batching, design patterns, prioritization, pull
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InfoPak 2 – Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban
Personal Kanban 101 View more presentations from Jim Benson. Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its second Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban we discuss the essentials for … Continue reading
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
A WIP Workout: Pomodoro and Personal Kanban
Pomodoro is the workout: Personal Kanban is the trainer. Continue reading
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Starting Is Easy, Finishing Is Hard
A wise man once told me, “starting is easy, finishing is hard.” This has been my struggle my entire professional career, but I would argue it started as far back as grade school. I’ve always had projects and tasks to … Continue reading
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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
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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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
