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Kaizen Camp: Seattle–What We Did at Camp
This year’s Seattle Kaizen Camp was awesome. I loved the range and diversity of the attendees, with people from health care, education, government, software development, and a host of other occupations. We had attendees from college students to C-Level management. … Continue reading
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
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Tagged efficiency, improvement, Kaizen, personal kanban, Philosophy
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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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Tagged 101, brain, efficiency, existential overhead, flow, gtd, improvement, Kaizen, optimization, Performance, personal kanban, primer, visual control
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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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Tagged flow, geography, Kaizen, visual control, work, work types
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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
How Am I Doing?
Observing work flow highlights waste and provides opportunities to improve. Continue reading
