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Mozart’s Record Store: Personal Kanban Anti-Pattern 2: Only One Value Stream
I will not be accused of burying the lead here and say right up front: Your Value Stream Is Wrong And it always will be. This is a good thing, as we work from day to day the steps … Continue reading
Urgent and Important: Incorporating your existing tools into Personal Kanban
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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Rapture – Training Your Mind for Completion
Don’t strain your brain, paint a train You’ll be singing’ in the rain… – Blondie Your brain is a muscle. As we repeat certain actions, our “muscle memory” becomes comfortable with those actions, and programs itself to anticipate them. As … Continue reading
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Cadence and the Personal Kanban
After teams use a kanban to help manage their work, they see that there’s a cadence to it, an underlying rhythm to work. When a piece of work enters the group’s workflow, how long it takes to accomplish a task, … Continue reading
Every Task is Sacred
One of the primary goals of a kanban is to make value explicit. When you spend your time doing something, the reward should be observable. Even if the task is vegging out, the reward is relaxation. You should engage in … Continue reading
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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