Kaizen Camp
Kaizen Camp: the Future of Work Unconference. At Kaizen Camp we discuss work. We discuss life. We discuss improving both. Whether we are entrepreneurs, C-level staff, federal employees, librarians,...
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Awareness: Why Limit WIP VIII
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. ~ Dalai Lama Self-discipline with the awareness of consequences....
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The Kaizen Resolution
If you are a typical New Year’s resolver, you’ve just taken on a large, daunting, personal transformation project. You want to lose weight or be nicer or play for the Celtics. Good for you! But if you...
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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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Kaizen Camp: Seattle 2013 Announced
Join us July 30-31 as Modus Cooperandi will be hosting its third annual Kaizen Camp: Seattle on the beautiful grounds of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. Join Jim Benson...
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Clean Up The DONE Column
You have my word that after this post, there will be no more memegenerator pictures.. How do you know when to clean up your DONE column? When it is full. I mentioned in our first post in this series...
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Kidzban Around the Web #3
Around the web people are sharing their experiences with Kidzban. This is the third post in the series – Kidzban Around the Web. Maritza van den Heuvel writes from her Becoming an Agile Family Blog....
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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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