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Personal Kanban Wins the Shingo Prize
Personal Kanban won a Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence this year. This is the highest honor in Lean and we share the award with some pretty august company. This award is humbling. Shingo awards are usually focused on manufacturing or … Continue reading
Tool Review: KanbanFlow
About a month ago, I was going on about how you should periodically throw out your Personal Kanban and replace it with a new one. Doing so, I reasoned, would compel you to address the clutter in your Personal Kanban … 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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The Lean Muppet Series: Introduction
I am 46 years old (at the time if this writing, it would be kind of nice to just keep on being a healthy active 46 year old, though). Being 46 year old and American, I was raised by three … Continue reading
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
WIP: The Kidzban Book
My dad was magical. When I was growing up, he turned everything into a game – studying, yard work, even combatting my fear of the Wicked Witch of the West. “Life should be fun!” he’d insist, invoking his own father’s … Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, how-to, kidzban, lean, personal kanban, productivity, teams, visualization
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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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Tagged 101, brain, efficiency, existential overhead, flow, gtd, improvement, Kaizen, optimization, Performance, personal kanban, primer, visual control
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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
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