Personal Kanban Mapping Work | Navigating Life eBook Tonianne DeMaria Barry Jim Benson
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Machines need to be productive. People need to be effective. Productivity books focus on doing more, Jim and Tonianne want you to focus on doing better. Personal Kanban is about choosing the right work at the right time. Recognizing why we do the things we do. Understanding the impact of our actions. Creating value - not just product. For ourselves, our families, our friends, our co-workers. For our legacy. Personal Kanban takes the same Lean principles from manufacturing that led the Japanese auto industry to become a global leader in quality, and applies them to individual and team work. Personal Kanban asks only that we visualize our work and limit our work-in-progress. Visualizing work allows us to transform our conceptual and threatening workload into an actionable, context-sensitive flow. Limiting our work-in-progress helps us complete what we start and understand the value of our choices. Combined, these two simple acts encourage us to improve the way we work and the way we make choices to balance our personal, professional, and social lives. Neither a prescription nor a plan, Personal Kanban provides a light, actionable, achievable framework for understanding our work and its context. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.
Personal Kanban Mapping Work | Navigating Life eBook Tonianne DeMaria Barry Jim Benson
I've followed and tried virtually all the time management and productivity techniques and tools since I first found career and life demands were more than I could keep up with in my head. With each one I've fallen prey to losing sight of the end goal and becoming compulsive about the tool or technique -- however not compulsive enough to keep it working for me. With time, the overhead of managing the tool bogs me down. Now a month or two into the Personal Kanban technique, using KanbanFlow as the online tool, I'm holding my own. I think the difference is the core tenet of limiting your WIP, so I can't become overwhelmed (although I may frustrate those who are trying to push WIP into my flow).Aside from the practice, the book is clear and practical, with doses of philosophy stirred in with the practicality. It's definitely worth a read, and the technique is easy to try. See if it works for you.
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Personal Kanban Mapping Work | Navigating Life eBook Tonianne DeMaria Barry Jim Benson Reviews
At the time that I purchased this book, I also happened to start a new job, and decided to experiment with a product development framework known as 'Scrum', which happens to be very closely related to 'Kanban'.
Both are techniques that were created for product development teams and were a response to process heavy up-front planning known as 'waterfall development'. Without having some context of working on a product development team actually implementing Agile processes, I think a lot of readers might not get as much out of the book.
The basic process of kanban is to post 'stickies' to a board in a 'Ready', 'Doing', 'Done' column.
There are 2 rules
1) Limit the Work in Progress (ideally no more than 3 things at a time)
2) Visualize the work
Concepts like the backlog may get lost on some people, as well as references to Taichi Ohno unless you work in the world of product development.
Nonetheless the book is pretty good. In particular, I like how it emphasized the concept of flowing work, and reducing cycle time on tasks, instead of trying to do a lot of things at once. I know I'm guilty of procrastinating on items and thinking to myself that I can get a lot done by attacking multiple things at once.
Also, the book is right to point out that humans are not like a 'glass of water' that contain work. We are more like a 'machine' that processes work. So Throughput and FLOW are more important concepts than capacity. Having breaks between work is necessary because otherwise the work jams up and throughput slows down (think traffic jam on a highway - it's caused by too many cars on the road, and not enough space between the cars).
I'd give this book 5 stars, but I feel the author needs to take a step back in certain places and explain fundamental concepts more clearly. That and there is a bit (though not too much) fluff in the book. For example, unless you have something new to say on Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, it's best not mentioned in a productivity book - the pyramid is vastly overused and taken out of context - which may have been the case here.
My other mixed criticism, is that the appendix is the only place where the author really shows a few case studies of the Kanban boards in action. This is one of the most useful parts of the books, and the idea of providing a dedicated 'swim lane' or means of visualizing work on a particular project is great. The way the board juxtaposes this against the higher level every day stuff is very instructive and useful, I wish there was more of these case studies throughout the book.
Overall a good book.
I would supplement with the following
Agile Results
Getting Things Done
Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
It's a lot of reading but well worth it in my opinion if you really want to develop an actionable system that manages workflow.
This is the book to buy. Why? Because this author invented Personal Kanban (PK). Thus he can write about it from every viewpoint that matters. I started out looking for a software product to do PK with and now believe that that may not be to my best advantage. I have a white board in my home office that will be perfect for PK. As yo will read in the book, being able to get a good visual on the board is really important and no iPad is going to give that perspective. I'm only giving up portability, but that is okay because when i leave my office I'm usually off to do one of my targets and I can move that target into the done column when I return. AND I can take a simple picture if I need to take it with me. Also, having it in one place allows the whole family to gather and plan together with live communication. Imagine! Really, the Outlook calendar was not getting the job done. Although I have been a CEO and ED, I did not have this tool available and can see easily how effective and rewarding it would have been to have. I used hand routed orders on paper that my secretary would follow up on and report back to me on. This leaves the staff out of the planning loop and thus out of a conceptual understanding of their role in achieving the goal.
Personal Kanban allows the vital communication between staff members and with management to be fluid. People, in my experience, want to do their jobs well and want to be a part of a group that allows individuals to make decisions and be responsible for their part without the need for orders. PK is a focal point that fosters total participation.
So, I have finally discovered why I make todo lists and then just ignore them.
Why my self imposed deadlines become meaningless.
Why I used to be really productive and effective and the last few years have not.
Why I have felt so exasperatingly overwhelmed even on days when there is nothing I actually have to do.
Not just another time management system (I have plenty), but a way out of the stress and overwhelm of work that keeps coming at me. Of incomplete tasks nagging at me and keeping me awake.
This book deals with the disconnect between our brains and the modern multitasking/deadline driven world. It is well written a doable.
I loved the system, I have implemented it, I am sleeping better. My backlog of projects hasn't disappeared, but somehow making them tangible has also made them manageable...and I am actually getting to them one by one.
I've followed and tried virtually all the time management and productivity techniques and tools since I first found career and life demands were more than I could keep up with in my head. With each one I've fallen prey to losing sight of the end goal and becoming compulsive about the tool or technique -- however not compulsive enough to keep it working for me. With time, the overhead of managing the tool bogs me down. Now a month or two into the Personal Kanban technique, using KanbanFlow as the online tool, I'm holding my own. I think the difference is the core tenet of limiting your WIP, so I can't become overwhelmed (although I may frustrate those who are trying to push WIP into my flow).
Aside from the practice, the book is clear and practical, with doses of philosophy stirred in with the practicality. It's definitely worth a read, and the technique is easy to try. See if it works for you.
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