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Do The Right Small Thing
When you look at your Personal Kanban, do you have tasks like “Do the Dishes” or are they more like “Build a House”? If they’re more like the latter, ask yourself why. Good Things Are Completed In Small Packages Lean … Continue reading
Mapping Your Work with Personal Kanban
For more on how this works, see the various posts in Personal Kanban 101. To-do lists are something that we’ve turned to time and again to manage our work and we’ve always been disappointed. They become daunting, lengthy, undifferentiated lists … Continue reading
Would You, Could You on a Plane?
As a matter of fact, yes. I boarded the first leg of my flight from Seattle to Hanoi. I had 19 hours of flying ahead of me. I also had a backlog, and no wifi. Agile Zen was not going … Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, task types, visual control, workflow
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Complex Lives Pt 1: Jessica’s Future In Progress
Ready –> Doing –> Done Life presents us with opportunities, and so we’ve no choice but to take on concurrent projects. Unfortunately they don’t always conform to that simple Ready –> Doing –> Done value stream. Last month I was … Continue reading
Work / Life Balance
I’ve been surprised lately by the number of people asking me about work/life balance. We feel we are undervaluing our family ties, our personal goals, our community involvement, our hobbies and our art. Oftentimes our work makes us feel isolated … Continue reading
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Tagged prioritization, subjective well being, task types, work life balance
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When Good Tasks Go Bad
Yesterday we were introduced to Richard, who is juggling the demands of several clients trying to keep each of them happy. His largest project entails working alone on a client’s mission-critical legacy system. So in the last blog post we … Continue reading
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Tagged design patterns, prioritization, task types, value stream, wip
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What Are Your Task Types?
Flexibility is an unsung virtue. People want absolutes: “Do this, then do that, don’t deviate and then you’ll achieve success.” But we all know that absolutes are often false, and that context is king – in life, in work, and … Continue reading
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Tagged limiting WIP, prioritization, risk, risk models, task types, wip
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