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iKan Personal Kanban for iPhone

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jim Benson

iKan is the first Personal Kanban iPhone application. Take your Personal Kanban on the road!

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Announcing the Launch of iKan, the Personal Kanban iPhone App

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Jim Benson

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 →

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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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Guest Post: My Current Personal Kanban System

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Corey_Ladas

One of my favorite observations about using kanban-like systems for time management is that I have never drawn the same task board twice. Every system that I have designed has had some unique feature to it. Even if I start … Continue reading →

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The Retrospective Column

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Jim Benson

When we make our work and our process explicit, and we do retrospectives, it makes sense to have a retrospective column in our Personal Kanban. The thought here is fairly simple: at the beginning of each day move tasks from … Continue reading →

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Dependencies in Personal Kanban

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Jim Benson

Dependencies are things that occur in succession. One thing happens, then another thing can happen. Ideally, on a kanban, the value stream will visualize these transitions. For a value stream like this: Analysis -> Creation -> Refinement -> Launch refinement … Continue reading →

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The Priority Filter: A Tutorial

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Jim Benson

Prioritization is often even more difficult and daunting as the tasks that confront you. A priority filter in your Personal Kanban helps you determine what tasks are ready in your queue, and the order of importance they should assume.  Click … Continue reading →

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Urgent and Important: Incorporating your existing tools into Personal Kanban

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Jim Benson

We’ve devised Personal Kanban to adapt to any system you might currently use (unless of course your preferred  system is utter chaos). The only two rules are visualize your work and limit work-in-progress (WIP). PK’s main goal is to get … Continue reading →

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Towards a Leaner Santa: Holiday "Do" Date-ban

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Tonianne DeMaria Barry

Chalk it up to a decade with the nuns and my time as a Girl Scout (always be prepared!), but I obsess over details. Having my “stuff” in one bag or my proverbial ducks in a row is how I … Continue reading →

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InfoPak 3 – Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Tonianne DeMaria Barry

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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