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Variation Can Help: Lean Muppet Post 1
Okay, so there’s nothing about this video that isn’t cute. And that’s fine. But what does it have to do with Lean? One of the most important lessons that Lean can teach us is how to appreciate...
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Personal Kanban Interview on Agile Scout
Agile Scout’s Peter Saddington interviews Jim Benson about Personal Kanban and the release of the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life. ASL005 – LIVE with Jim Benson Personal Kanban...
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Why Not a WIP of One?: Why Limit WIP Series, Post 2
With only two guiding principles – Visualize your work and Limit your WIP – much of Personal Kanban seems fairly straightforward. But it’s not as obvious as it seems, and there’s actually a lot going...
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Getting Beyond Done–When to Archive
“When do I remove tickets from the DONE column?” The short answer is, every week or so, try to have a short retrospective with your team or alone (if you are working by yourself). When you have the...
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Planning is Indispensable. 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...
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Mozart’s Record Store: Personal Kanban Anti-Pattern 2: Only One Value Stream
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 we take to...
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HOW TO: How to Limit WIP #4– How to Size Tasks (sort of)
Strangely, although people routinely overburden themselves with work, their first objection to limiting work-in-progress is “don’t all my tasks need to be the same size? How do I size my work?” They...
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HOW TO: Limit WIP #5–Throughput Analysis
When we think about limiting Work-in-process, we have to confront that there are many types of work. Simply limiting work is not enough, we have to know what we are limiting. We have to see what we are...
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HOW TO: Limit WIP #6: Count The Bosses–Show the Work
It’s hard to limit your work-in-progress when your boss count exceeds your WIP limit. If you have a WIP Limit of 3 and 12 bosses, you may as well have one card permanently in your Personal Kanban that...
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Kidzban Around the Web #2
Around the web people are sharing their experiences with Kidzban. This is the second post in the series – Kidzban Around the Web. Joseph Flahiff introduced Kanban to his daughters on a Saturday...
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