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Loading... Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Lifeby Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Easily digestible overview. I have a deep appreciation for kanban as a concept, so it was interesting to see how it might be applied to everyday environments even when my workplaces doesn't use such a system. ( ) Jim Benson provides a basic overview of how to use personal kanban in various settings to improve workflow. His discussion about the theory was a bit difficult to follow in the beginning, as I wasn't familiar with some of the terms (or maybe because I read it while I had the flu), but most of the text was straight forward. I appreciated the summaries at the end of each chapter and the variations on the basic kanban that the author provided. His use of concrete examples to explain abstract ideas were helpful, too. For instance, he used a congested freeway to explain time management. If one tries to cram too many tasks into the workflow, nothing moves, just like too many cars on the freeway (a frequent occurrence in the greater Seattle area) causes gridlock. The book focuses on using a physical kanban, but the technique can also be applied to various digital applications. I created a sticky note board on my office cabinets to try to tame my personal office, homeschool mom, and household manager life. This book throughly describes both the 'hows' and 'whys' of employing just two rules to form the most definitively elegant and systemically executable task management system for personal work (and life) management. If you've never heard of 'kanban' before, this is a very interesting, albeit unique, introduction. If you've seen kanban only in the context of software development or industrial work management before this book should provide a whole new appreciation for the methodology. Either way, this is a brilliant adaptation of the functional visualization/prioritization functions of the core kanban work-in-process methods for more than just efficient, but rather 'effective' personal time management - I highly recommend reading and using the concepts described for anyone who wants (needs) to become more effectively productive! no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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