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Integration is Enterprise 2.0. This week my friend and colleague Dion Hinchcliffe posted an article on ZD Net describing 14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail. In it he paints a picture of valiant workers surreptitiously cyber-skulking on dank distributed web sites, efficiently working and making money for their companies – all the while keeping an eye out for dagger-wielding IT staff...
read moreSometimes your relationship to work is initiative based, other times it is reactive. This is simply the nature of work. It is normal, and nothing – not personal kanban, not GTD – is going to change that. In the game “Go” (“Weiqi” in Chinese) there are balanced strategic concepts for the natural ebbs and flows of taking the initiative or reacting to a change in a...
read moreIn both Agile and Lean management there are points called “retrospectives,” regular and ritualized moments where a team stops to reflect. Checking processes for only a few minutes lets you re-orient the course of your work. These retrospectives allow a team the opportunity not only to celebrate or bemoan accomplishments or setbacks, but likewise to serve as a constructive way to...
read moreIt has been fascinating to watch the personal kanban meme spread through use and not through pontification. When people see a personal kanban in action, it just makes sense to them. Parents start with their own kanban and soon their kids have them and then the family shares them. Peter has one, then his girlfriend wants one as well. There are stories coming in from people who have used...
read moreA wiki is a website anyone can edit. A kanban is a workflow anyone can edit. A wiki entry is always able to be improved upon. A kanban card is always able to be refined. In wikis, there is a constant reification of ideas. In kanban, there is a constant reification of work. In wikis, incorrect information is identified by the group and excised. In kanban, waste is identified by the group and...
read moreWe’ve started a Facebook group for Personal Kanban, a dedicated web site is on the way, and a book is in development. I’m still tweeting about personal kanban through my personal twitter. If you want to read the existing personal kanban series, just click the link! We really weren’t expecting personal kanban to take off like this. This inadvertently added to our workload (making our...
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