InfoPak 3 - Personal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flow

Info Pak3 Personal Kanban Design Patterns

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Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its third Personal Kanban InfoPak. InPersonal Kanban Design Patterns: Inspiration to Discover Your Flowwe present a series of patterns for individuals as well as for small "teams." Among the topics discussed: approaches tailored to specific users (i.e. children and authors) and situations (i.e. non-linear work); ways in which productivity tools such as GTD and Pomodoro extend the value of your Personal Kanban; how "coping mechanisms" such as retrospectives shed light on work patterns that have helped or hindered productivity in the past.For best results and access to links, please download the presentation. As always, please feel free to embed, distribute, and/or comment on this or any of our other InfoPaks.

Getting "Personal" with Your Kanban

So why call it "personal" if I can use it with my family, in the classroom, or with a team at the office?In life and in business, we create value.  For Personal Kanban, "personal"  relates to  personal value.  Personal Kanban tracks and visualizes items of personal value - tasks, work, and goals.

Industrial-style kanban - as it was conceptualized by Taiichi Ohno and notably implemented at Toyota - tracks industrial objects of value (tasks) as they travel thru a production stream that is often predictable. These objects have primary value to the organization. This model, while flexible, still tracks relatively well-defined objects through a relatively well-defined value stream. Tracking a crank case over its assembly process is markedly different from tracking the workflow of your upcoming move or your daughter's wedding.

In contrast, "Personal Kanban" tracks items of personal value as they travel thru a less predictable path. These objects are often smaller and more varied.

In Personal Kanban, even when tracking the tasks of a team, the object of value - and by extension the resultant epiphany about the nature of that work - is still connected primarily to the individual.

Small teams work better when using a group Personal Kanban because such epiphanies are not only shared, but they can likewise be distributed. A realization that something can be improved does not have to be limited to your individual work.

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Save the Date...for a Tweet-a-ban!

When: November 17, 2009Where: TwitterHashtag: #pkflowSave the date because Modus Cooperandi is hosting a "Tweet-a-ban." Whether you're a Personal Kanban practitioner or just have an interest in improving your  productivity, join in on the asynchronous, 24 hour long global conversation. For details click here.

InfoPak 2 - Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban

Personal Kanban 101

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Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its second Personal Kanban InfoPak. InPersonal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban we discuss the essentials for getting your board started. Topics addressed include how to establish value stream, backlog and WIP, and why there are only two hard rules to implementing this productivity tool.As always, please feel free to download, distribute, comment and let us know what you think.