Collaborating with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Modus Cooperandi has begun a project to help the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) create on-line training courses in distributed collaboration. Modus joins thought leaders and experts from around the world in building a curriculum that will help workers from FAO and other organizations collaborate from a distance. The project’s aim is to provide knowledge of patterns, practices and tools that facilitate distributed collaboration and knowledge sharing – making remote locations no longer isolated , and providing...
read moreSave the Date…for a Tweet-a-ban!
When: November 17, 2009 Where: Twitter Hashtag: #pkflow Modus and personalkanban.com are hosting a “Tweet-a-ban.” Whether you’re a Personal Kanban practitioner or just have an interest in improving your productivity, join in on the asynchronous, 24 hour long global conversation. For details click...
read moreInfoPak 2 – Personal Kanban 101: How to Build Your First Personal Kanban
Personal Kanban 101 View more presentations from Jim Benson. Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its second Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban we discuss the essentials for getting your board started. Topics addressed include how to establish value stream, backlog and WIP, and why there are only two hard rules to implementing this productivity tool. As always, please feel free to download, distribute, comment and let us know what you...
read morePersonal Kanban at the World Bank: Modus Cooperandi Info Pak 1 Released
Personal Kanban at the World Bank – Small Team Rapid Development View more documents from ourfounder. This is the first in a series of Modus Cooperandi’s InfoPaks. They are downloadable, and work like a narrative whitepaper. Think of them like graphic novels for business. In InfoPak One: Personal Kanban at the World Bank, we discuss the experience we had leading a rapid development project at the World Bank, specifically, how visual controls work with small groups, and why they are preferable to traditional team...
read moreGov 2.0 University Launches in Washington, DC
Gov 2.0 University begins on September 29th & 30th at LMI in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Modus Cooperandi has been working with Hinchcliffe & Company and LMI to create a cutting-edge curriculum that focuses on how to employ 2.0 technologies, patterns, and practices. Courses are already scheduled into 2010. The university includes personal briefings for high ranking officials, two day managers’ seminars, and five day practitioner courses.
read morePersonal Kanban and the World Bank
Modus Cooperandi is excited to announce our upcoming personal kanban project, where we will use our Personal Kanban techniques in a directed exercise with knowledge workers from around the world. From the 21st through the 25th of September, Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry will be working with The World Agroforestry Centre and the World Bank to lead their Capacity Building Program on the Opportunity Costs of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Land Use Change (OpCost) Writeshop, at the World Bank Institute in Washington D.C. The...
read moreJim Benson to Teach Enterprise 2.0 in Zurich – Nov 2, 2009
On the 2nd of November, 2009, Jim Benson will be teaching Enterprise 2.0 as part of Somesso’s Leveraging Corporate Social Media in the Finance Sector event in Zurich, Switzerland. The Enterprise 2.0 track is part of our on-going strategic partnership with Dion Hinchcliffe and Web 2.0 University. Using Dion’s courseware, Jim will be teaming with a German counterpart to tailor the materials to the European financial community. Photo:...
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Scrumban by Corey Ladas
Buy your own copy of Scrumban Corey Ladas’ groundbreaking paper “ScrumBan” has captured the imagination of the software development world. Scrum and agile methodologies have helped software development teams organize and become more efficient. Lean methods like kanban can extend these benefits. Kanban also provides a powerful mechanism to identify process improvement opportunities. This book covers some of the metrics and day-to-day management techniques that make continuous improvement an achievable outcome in the real...
read moreMicroenterprises and the Enterprise 2.0 Trajectory
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! What is the curtain? The enterprise is the curtain. In concurrent posts, SocialText’s Michael Idinopulos discusses killing pilot projects and the true nature of Enterprise 2.0. He explains: Enterprise social software isn’t one application. It’s a range of collaborative modes that includes blogs, wikis, micromessaging, personal dashboards, collaborative spreadsheeting, and social bookmarking. When Michael discusses killing pilot projects (small rollouts as proofs of concept),...
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