Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life

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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. TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE FOREWORD The Agony of Crisis Management INTRODUCTION Personal Kanban: 100% New Age Free CHAPTER 1 The Basics of Personal Kanban Towards a More Personal Kanban Rules for a System That Abhors Rules Why Visualize Your Work: Navigate Safely Why Limit Your WIP Why Call it Personal Kanban How to Use This Book PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 2 Building Your First Personal Kanban Step One: Get Your Stuff Ready Step Two: Establish Your Value Stream Step Three: Establish Your Backlog Step Four: Establish Your WIP Limit Step Five: Begin to Pull Step Six: Reflect Personal Kanban Power Boosters What it All Means PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 3 My Time Management is in League with the Freeway Flow Like Traffic Setting WIP Limits Living the Days of Our Lives Clarity Calms Carl To-do Lists: Spawns of the Devil PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 4 Nature Flows Flow: Work’s Natural Movement Cadence: Work’s Beat Slack: Avoiding Too Many Notes Pull, Flow, Cadence, and Slack in Action Busboy Wisdom: The Nature of Pull PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 5 Components of a Quality Life Metacognition: A Cure for the Common Wisdom Productivity, Efficiency, and Effectiveness Defining a Good Investment Reality Check PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 6 Finding Our Priorities Structure, Clarity, and Our Ability to Prioritize Smaller, Faster, Better: Controlling Task Size and Limiting WIP Prioritization in Theory and Practice Urgency & Importance Live Your Own Life Expert: Metrics in Personal Kanban PKFlow Tips CHAPTER 7 Strive for Improvement Clarity Conquers All Course Corrections: The Reality of Reprioritization The Bedrock of Introspection Retrospectives Solving Problems at Their Source PKFlow Tips ENDGAME Endgame APPENDIX A Personal Kanban Design Patterns Jessica’s Story: Future in Progress and Multiple Value Streams Sequestering Approach: Dealing with Repetitive Tasks Emergency Response Approach: Taming Unexpected Workloads Time Capsule Approach Balanced Throughput Approach APPENDIX B Personal Kanban and Social Media Facebook Twitter Blogging