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Finishing Feels Good
Yes, finishing feels good. When we complete tasks, we feel better than when we have a pile of incompletes just lying around. Incompletion creeps up on us, overloads us, and crushes us. The more we fail...
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What is the Personal in Personal Kanban?
What is Personal? The “Personal” in Personal Kanban can mean many things. Capital P Personal – This is the personal nature of you. Your work, your decisions, your professionalism, your problem solving,...
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On Working Intentionally: The “Thinking Ticket”
The quality of art is that it makes people who are otherwise always looking outward, turn inward. ~ the Dalai Lama There’s a certain irony in the fact that knowledge workers are often afforded...
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Finding Our Own Value – Growing By Understanding
There are those days where your Personal Kanban is on fire. You are in a state of flow and tickets are just moving right along. The days go by and you look at your DONE column … it’s full. Really...
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Jim Benson
Incorporating lessons from a multi-disciplinary background that includes psychology, urban planning, government technology planning, software development, and corporate change management, Jim Benson...
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Tonianne DeMaria
Tonianne is partner and principle consultant at Modus Cooperandi, co-author of the Shingo Research and Publication Award winning Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, and the upcoming Why...
View ArticleScrumban
Corey Ladas’ groundbreaking paper “ScrumBan” has captured the imagination of the software development world. This book covers some of the metrics and day-to-day management techniques that make...
View ArticleSuccessful Lean Teams Workshop with Jim Benson & Mark Graban in San Francisco
How do you understand your work, gain alignment, and then build the right thing? In business, whether we are a startup or established, we need to: Get the right work done at the right time Release...
View ArticleFor Context, Clarity, & Continuous Improvement, Get Rid of That To-Do List
Make list. Become overwhelmed. Cross off low-hanging fruit. Feel good (momentarily). Tackle next easiest task. Repeat. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? But why simply optimize for productivity, when you...
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Do More Things Right
Don’t focus on the negative. The board shows us successes to replicate. I love to cook. When I make good food and share it with others, they will take a bite and look as excited to eat it as I was to...
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