Building Your First Personal Kanban
The basic kanban: Waiting, Working, Done A quick trip through personal kanban design patterns demonstrates how they can be created using any number of materials. This tutorial illustrates how to build...
View ArticleRespect Your Backlog and Manage It
You can tame what seems difficult Your backlog is bigger than it should be and it needs to be managed. Everyday people tell us how they are overwhelmed by their backlog, and cannot possibly manage it...
View ArticleDependencies in Personal Kanban
Dependencies are things that occur in succession. One thing happens, then another thing can happen. Ideally, on a kanban, the value stream will visualize these transitions. For a value stream like...
View ArticlePlanning is Indispensible. Personal Kanban Anti-patterns Series 1
In the early 2000s, people discovered how great pomegranate juice is. It’s filled with antioxidants that help us avoid colds and other maladies. Well, no one likes to be sick, so people started buying...
View ArticleHOW TO: How to Limit WIP #2–Affinity Mapping
Does this look familiar? This is a problem, because an disorderly and frightening READY column is, in and of itself, a form of work-in-progress. Even if you are limiting your WIP, looking at that huge...
View ArticleAre You Just Doing Things?
I’ll bet you have a lot of things to do. Of course you do. We all do. A Personal Kanban anti-pattern that I’m seeing is that people are filling their kanbans with things to do and then…doing them....
View ArticleCategorizing Your Backlog
Your backlog is hope. Your backlog is pain. Your backlog holds all the projects, tasks, demands, desires, and expectations you have and the world has for you. The problem is, today’s apparent...
View ArticleClean Up Your Backlog
Does your READY column look like a junk drawer? Do you have tasks in there that you are holding onto from six months ago that say “Urgent!” (and have since the day they were created)? Guess what?...
View ArticlePersonal Kanban & Some Goodies About Your Brain
Sharing some thoughts around my weekly homework from my neuroscience studies Knowledge work is all about attention. Unfortunately that is a scarce resource, easily high jacked by any distraction....
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