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5s in Personal Kanban
Introduction Personal Kanban is a great tool to visualize your work, to limit your WIP and to take better control of your life, either alone or together with your significant other, your kids or even your team at the office. … Continue reading
Posted in DesignPatterns, Expert, Primers
Tagged efficiency, improvement, Kaizen, personal kanban, Philosophy
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Complex Lives Pt 2: Visualizing Real Work
In part one of Complex Lives, we set a Future in Progress (FIP) limit for Jessica, a busy and active single mom. Her goals were overwhelming her ability to get things done. So we reigned them in by giving her … Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, fip, how-to, improvement, prioritization, visual control, wip, workflow
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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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Tagged 101, approaches, david bowie, design patterns, effectiveness, efficiency, flow, improvement, major tom, personal kanban, prioritization, priority filter, productivity, space oddity, visual control, wip, workflow
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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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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
