One of the fundamental lessons I’ve learnt since starting to use Personal Kanban, is that there is no “one size fits all” approach. The traditional whiteboard with stickies may work for some, but in many cases you want to – and need to – mold your Kanban to the way your life rolls. As our [...]
Archive for May, 2010
All Aboard!
Posted in Organizing, Personal Kanban, tagged kanban boards, swimlanes on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Family planning the agile way
Posted in Agile Software Development, Kidzban, Organizing, Personal Kanban, tagged calendars, checklists, conditions of satisfaction, continuous integration, done criteria, organizing, test automation on May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After some great comments and questions on last week’s post, I thought I’d spend some time on our family’s planning and organization system as a whole. Here the focus is on two key mechanisms that we use to augment Personal Kanban – checklists and calendars. Look out for a separate follow-up on the rewards systems [...]
When pulling becomes pushing
Posted in Kidzban, Personal Kanban, tagged pull, push, sustainable pace on May 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
By it’s very definition, Kanban is a “pull” system. This means that team members pull more work from the product backlog when they have capacity to take on the work. The onus is on the team to do the pulling, not on anybody to “push” the team to take on more work. The ideal is [...]
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