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Personal Kanban Wins the Shingo Prize

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Jim Benson

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 →

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Tool Review: KanbanFlow

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Jim Benson

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 →

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5s in Personal Kanban

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Oliver Finker

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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The Lean Muppet Series: Introduction

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Jim Benson

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 →

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Mozart’s Record Store: Personal Kanban Anti-Pattern 2: Only One Value Stream

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Jim Benson

  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 →

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WIP: The Kidzban Book

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tonianne DeMaria Barry

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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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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Rapture – Training Your Mind for Completion

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Jim Benson

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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GTD & Kanban: Managing The Relationship Between Someday/Maybe & Active Projects

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Paul Eastabrook

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 →

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GTD & Kanban: Similarities, Differences & Synergies Between The Two

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Paul Eastabrook

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 →

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