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Recognizing Waste – Pattern Recognition and Outliers
The patterns of the game govern. Kanban’s primary weapon: visualization Kanban’s primary tool: limiting WIP Kanban’s primary goal: reducing waste By visualizing our workload, we limit work-in-progress...
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One Kid’z Kanban Board
Sometimes I tell my 6-year old daughter to clean her room. Then she argues, maybe runs to the next room, or she starts to clean up but gets bored, overwhelmed or distracted. Pretty soon she is playing...
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The Time Capsule Personal Kanban in Detail
Individual work is a real PITA. Over time, we invariably amass a lot of small tasks that are necessary but not urgent. We end up with a number of things that aren’t high priorities but, the longer we...
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Personal Kanban: Tangible Tasks Produce Prioritization
Planning and prioritizing is a wicked problem that has plagued humankind since time immemorial. – Corey Ladas Human beings want three things in life: sex, money and effective prioritization. There...
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How I Cook
Mixed Wine and Sour Cherry Reduction I frustrate people when I give cooking classes. They want measures. They want me to tell them what to do. Cooking isn’t like that. Cooking is about flavor, it’s...
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The Diffusion of Responsibility
When I was an urban planning student at Michigan State University, I was part of a team involved in a large group project. We were writing a downtown redevelopment plan for Albion, a small city in...
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Depth in Progress: of Wine Snobs, Audiophiles, and Agilistas
“Wine is to enjoy, not to judge.” ~ Hwi Woong Jeong (웅가) Wine Enthusiast The gentleman next to me took out his laptop and began typing, he had a large pile of wine labels and a notebook filled with...
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Managing Sandy’s Aftermath: Emergency Response Personal Kanban
Hurricanes do not respect WIP limits. Despite our best efforts, there are simply some instances where we cannot limit our work-in-progress. Forces beyond our control seem to conspire to control us....
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Two Personal Kanban Resolution Ideas
Happy 2013! Most people I know don’t even make New Year’s Resolutions anymore, and when they do – they are perfunctory and amorphous. I will lose weight, I will exercise more, I will grow wings and fly...
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Small New Years Projects (Cabana Kaizen)
For those of us who might be sitting in a world of clutter, where a million small tasks have become one daunting one – I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START! – the only way out of that jungle is through. Since...
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Kanban: A Universe of Options for Life’s Planning & Organizing Challenges #2
This is the second post in a guest series, Kanban: A Universe of Options for Life’s Planning & Organizing Challenges by Nadja Schnetzler. Visualize your work When I talk about visualizing the...
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The ABC’s of Personal Kanban in the Classroom
Personal Kanban in the classroom is one area that I am highly passionate about. Why? I have seen it in action, first-hand in the preschool classroom. As a teacher it is exciting when your students...
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Two Goals Quickly Visualized
I realized that I had fallen off the writing wagon. I had become a non-writer. That was really bothering me. I sat down several times to write blog posts and wrote portions of them or huge rambling...
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Kanban Seder
Last week my wife and I hosted a Passover Seder. We have entertained together a number of times, but this was the first real attempt at a coordinated, sit-down meal. Most of our gatherings have been...
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Personal Kanban: Integrating Evernote with LeanKit using Zapier
Continuing our series of Personal Kanban focused integrations for LeanKit, let’s take a look at integrating Evernote with LeanKit. Say you’re in Evernote, and you want to quickly add a card to your...
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Integrating Your Personal Kanban with Campfire in LeanKit using Zapier
Does your team use Campfire? Ever wish you could just create a LeanKit card from the Campfire chat window, just by typing in a simple command? This integration between Campfire and LeanKit, via...
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Text a Task Card to Your Kanban in LeanKit using Twilio and Zapier
Today, I’ll show you how to set up your LeanKit/Zapier integration with Twilio, so that you can create a new LeanKit card by sending an SMS (Text) Message from your phone. First, you’ll need an account...
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