Podcasts about modus cooperandi

Agile 2023 is almost here! Mark Kilby, Tim Nolan, and I are putting the final touches on our session Tuning Your Distributed Team with a Right Environment Exercise. We are looking forward to sharing some of the things we learned in Modus Cooperandi's Lean Agile Visual Management Certification program. The workshop will be held at Agile 2023 on Tuesday, July 25th from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This video gives an overview of our workshop and some of the key concepts we will be covering with the participants. If you are attending the conference for the first time, it can be a rough week so we've also got tips for how to get the most out of the conference and how to best survive the week. This was originally recorded in video. You can find that version here:https://youtu.be/FKwIETj0xzM

BONUS: The Collaboration Equation, Fostering Effective Collaboration in Agile Software Development with Jim Benson Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes.   About Jim Benson A pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban to knowledge work, Jim is the creator of Personal Kanban and co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, winner of the Shingo Research and Publication Award. His other books include Why Plans Fail, Why Limit WIP, and Beyond Agile. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. For the past two decades Jim has worked at uncovering ways for individuals and groups to communicate, collaborate, and find clarity in unpredictable and amorphous environments. You can link with Jim Benson on LinkedIn and connect with Jim Benson on Twitter.

Episode page with transcript, video, and more My guest for Episode #463 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jim Benson, the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. He was previously a guest on Episodes 155 and 401. He was also a guest on Lean Whiskey #25 with me and Jamie Flinchbaugh (and #31), and was guest #4 on My Favorite Mistake. A pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban to knowledge work, Jim is the creator of Personal Kanban and is co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life, winner of the Shingo Research and Publication Award. His other books include Why Plans Fail, Why Limit WIP, and Beyond Agile. His latest book is The Collaboration Equation: Strong Professionals, Strong Teams, Strong Delivery. Today, we discuss topics and questions including: How do you define collaboration?  As an angry punk rocker? Parallels to startup software companies?? The balance between “every building/patient is unique “vs. having knowledge/structure/process?? Standard work for encountering complexity When a major problem gets solved and nobody ends up in tears – From lawsuits, yelling, and strife — to collaborative problem solving? How? Culture as it exists… culture as we are creating…?? Team deciding the culture vs. the CEO or leader having a vision of what the culture should be? What the CEO says vs. what is the reality? Value Stream Mapping as a “ruse”… a way to uncover team breakdown problems Flapping our mouths vs. information about what's really happening?? Get comfortable with change happening every day Be hard on the process, not the people? But the system is made of people… The FEELING of being respected Fear as a cause of problems — “Every real collaboration has psychological safety” What have you learned about PS, how to gauge it, and how to create it? “You can't go buy a box of psychological safety” An NBA superteam… how would YOU lead them? Getting over your damn self The power of team members who are more likely to talk about others than themselves “Do you feel heard…” — or are you actually heard? What readers would get the most out of this book? The podcast is sponsored by Stiles Associates, now in their 30th year of business. They are the go-to Lean recruiting firm serving the manufacturing, private equity, and healthcare industries. Learn more. This podcast is part of the #LeanCommunicators network. 

“A highly functional team defines the right environment and has what they need to be the best professionals they can be. And that always includes agency and psychological safety." Jim Benson is the co-author of “Personal Kanban” and is currently working on his upcoming book “The Collaboration Equation”. In this episode, we started by discussing Personal Kanban, how it differs from a to-do list, and its two main rules, i.e. visualizing our work and limiting our work-in-progress. Jim also shared practical tips on managing our personal backlog, doing prioritization, and limiting our work in progress. In the latter half of our conversation, we discussed Jim's new book, “The Collaboration Equation”, starting with the discussion about the common collaboration challenges and why professionalism and psychological safety are prerequisites to building high-performing teams. Jim also explained the concept of collaborative leadership and gave practical tips on how we can measure effective collaboration. Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:06:42] Current State of Productivity - [00:08:17] Obeya - [00:10:12] Rules of Personal Kanban - [00:12:44] Kanban vs Todo List - [00:14:46] Managing Backlog - [00:17:07] Limiting Work in Progress - [00:24:26] Collaboration Equation - [00:27:36] Professionalism - [00:31:06] Psychological Safety - [00:33:21] Collaborative Leadership - [00:36:39] Collaborative Process - [00:41:04] Measuring Collaboration - [00:46:09] 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:51:09] _____ Jim Benson's Bio Jim Benson is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. A pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban methodologies to knowledge work, Jim is the creator of Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee, and co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, winner of the prestigious Shingo Research and Publication Award. His other books include Why Plans Fail, Why Limit WIP, and Beyond Agile. His upcoming book The Collaboration Equation will be out in Summer 2022. Follow Jim: Twitter – @ourfounder LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson Modus Cooperandi – https://moduscooperandi.com/ Modus Institute – https://modusinstitute.com/ Our Sponsors DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ. Skills Matter is the global community and events platform for software professionals. It is an easier way for technologists to grow their careers by connecting you and your peers with the best-in-class tech industry experts and communities. You get on-demand access to their latest content, thought leadership insights as well as the exciting schedule of tech events running across all time zones. Head on over to skillsmatter.com to become part of the tech community that matters most to you - it's free to join and easy to keep up with the latest tech trends. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/97.

Jim Benson has a new book titled, The Collaboration Equation. Jim states that collaboration “is the base of the human condition, we need other people in order to live, but always seem to be at odds with each other.” Jim also states that unless you are striving for improvement, you are unprofessional. I really like talking to Jim; Jim is a force of nature.  Jim's career path has taken him through government agencies, Fortune 10 corporations, and start-ups. Through them all, his passion has remained consistent – applying new technologies to workgroups. In each case asking how they can be leveraged to collaborate and cooperate more effectively. Jim loves ideas, creation, and building opportunities. He loves working with teams who are passionate about the future, pushing boundaries, and inclusion. His goal with all technologies is to increase beneficial contact between people and reduce the bureaucratic noise which so often tends to increase costs and destroy creativity. Jim is the author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book Personal Kanban (use the link to buy a copy and support the podcast). He is a noted expert in business process, personal work management, and the application of Lean to personal work and life. Jim believes that the best process is the least process necessary to achieve goals. He has zero tolerance for process waste. All said, Jim enjoys helping people and teams work out sticky problems, an advocate of people actually seeing their work, and inventing new ways to work at the intersection of Lean thinking, brain science, and leadership. Contact Jim Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourfounder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson Personal Kanban: http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/#sthash.MtOA96sV.dpbs Modus Cooperandi: http://moduscooperandi.com/ Re-read Saturday News We are talking the week off on our re-read Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (SPaMCAST Amazon affiliate line https://amzn.to/38G0ZD3 - buy a copy). I was traveling to Nashville for Agile 2022 (let me know if you are here).  Next week we will be back on track but in the interim remember to buy a copy of Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins and read along. Previous Installments Week 1: Logistics and Introduction - https://bit.ly/3A1aNTe  Week 2: Will I Be A Good Coach - https://bit.ly/3nzDAHg  Week 3: Expect High Performance - https://bit.ly/3Rl4fFf    Next SPaMCAST  We will map our basic flow metrics palttet a simple organizational hierarchy. Some metrics tell us where we were and some tell us where we are going. This essay reflects work that Jeremy WIllets and I are exploring.  We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault who brings his QA Corner to the Software Process and Measurement Cast.  

In this episode, Jim Benson, CEO of Modus Cooperandi and a Shingo Research Award-winning author who has spent over 20 years implementing lean in a variety of industries, discusses effectiveness for people, teams, and organizations. He explained why Toyota's gift to the world was not the Ishikawa Diagram, but rather respecting the supply chain and creating connections with it. https://theleaneffectpodcast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheLeanEffectPodcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/272448766629082/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lean-effect-podcast/ Insta: @theleaneffectpodcast Twitter @EffectLean Guest: Jim Benson https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson/ jim@moduscooperandi.com Host: Mark Dejong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-de-jong-investor-lean-advisor-0288695/ Mark@4ppartners.ca https://www.4ppartners.ca Phone: 1-778-807-9691  

In this episode of the podcast, Agile Coach Dan Eberle is back to help me respond to a student question that is complicated, confusing, and more common than it should be… Ivan (not the person's real name) explained the situation like this… Six Product Owners/Developers oversee 20 reports within the org. Each of the reports has a specialized role. They are broken up into teams that range in size from 1-5 people, and the team size tends to fluctuate. Some of the Product Owners/Developers oversee teams and are also the people managers of the individuals on the team. Some of the team members report to people managers who are Product Owner/Developers of other teams, team members of other teams, or people completely outside the grouping of 6 + 20. There is competition for the attention/efforts of team members who are allocated to more than one project and/or reporting to a people manager who has different priorities than the PO/Dev they are assigned to work with. Basically, everyone is over-allocated and the people on your team, who you need to do the work you are responsible for, are being pulled in other directions either by the person they report to, or the other projects they are assigned to. I tried to draw a picture of this. Ivan confirmed this was pretty accurate. https://bit.ly/30doyyk During the conversation, Dan and I discuss the challenges this situation creates, potential responses, what the root cause of this problem might be and how to pursue solving that, rather than simply finding a coping strategy To Learn More about the Lean Agile Visual Management course Dan and I are taking with Modus Cooperandi -> https://bit.ly/3HbZ6u6 Contacting Dan LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3wGScbC Twitter: https://bit.ly/3F6dkec

Consultant, author, "Personal Kanban" expert Notes: http://www.markgraban.com/mistake4 My guest for Episode #4 is Jim Benson, the creator of the "Personal Kanban" method and an expert making work flow and decisions easy. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi and is a Founding Partner in Modus Institute. And, he's co-creator of the "Lean Coffee" meeting format. Today, Jim shares a story about working his mistakes and assumptions that he made when working with a large telecom / communications clients that had thrown out the new cross-functional way of working that Jim had helped them put in place. It's a mistake that was humbling to Jim and a mistake that he cheerfully learned from. Jim is co-author of the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life. You can find him on Twitter as @ourfounder. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support

Jim’s Personal Kanban: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigating/dp/1453802266 Jim Benson’s training company that has courses on distributed teams: https://modusinstitute.com/courses/ Jim Benson’s consulting company Modus Cooperandi: https://moduscooperandi.com More books from Jim:  Why Limit WIP: We Are Drowning In Work https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KRJFS2Y/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 Why Plans Fail: Cognitive Bias, Decision Making, and Your Business https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006S3UHGA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4 Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989081214/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6 Attributions: Thanks …

Jim’s Personal Kanban: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigating/dp/1453802266 Jim Benson’s training company that has courses on distributed teams: https://modusinstitute.com/courses/ Jim Benson’s consulting company Modus Cooperandi: https://moduscooperandi.com More books from Jim:  Why Limit WIP: We Are Drowning In Work https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KRJFS2Y/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 Why Plans Fail: Cognitive Bias, Decision Making, and Your Business https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006S3UHGA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4 Beyond Agile: Tales of Continuous Improvement https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989081214/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6

Jim Benson’s training company that has courses on distributed teams: https://modusinstitute.com/courses/ Jim Benson’s consulting company Modus Cooperandi: https://moduscooperandi.com

Jak ogarnąć wszechmiar napływającej do nas pracy? Jak ustrzec się wielozadaniowości i zajętości a skupić na właściwych zadaniach? Sposobem na to jest Personal Kanban - uproszczona forma wizualizacji i zarządzania przepływem pracy za pomocą osobistych tablic Kanban. Cyfrowych. Analogowych? Obu? W 14. odcinku podcastu rozmawiam z Jimem Bensonem - współtwórcą koncepcji Personal Kanban. Jim opowiada o korzeniach, celach i praktycznych narzędziach pracy. To wszystko staje się jeszcze bardziej aktualne w czasach pracy, gdy większość z nas została z dnia na dzień zmuszona do pracy zdalnej, pracy w izolacji i jednoczesnego bycia rodzicem, czy partnerem. Więcej o koncepcji Personal Kanban znajdziecie na stronach Modus Cooperandi: https://www.personalkanban.com/personal-kanban-101

Find out why we are all overworked and what we as individuals and teams can do about it. In this episode I speak with Jim Benson from Modus Cooperandi, co-author (with Tonianne de Maria Barry) of «Personal Kanban»

SPaMCAST 553 features our interview with Jim Benson.  Jim and I focused on prioritization and how prioritization can be a reflection of more deep-seated problems. One of the ideas Jim shares is that processes are the social contract for getting work done.  I really enjoy talking with Jim and think you will enjoy the conversation. During the close of the interview, Jim talks about Modus Cooperandi’s class on prioritization.  Jim has extended a discount code for listeners of the podcast for all of the MI classes. The code is SPAMCAST20 or you can use the link:   https://modusinstitute.com/p/me-what-do-i-do-next/?coupon_code=SPAMCAST20   Jim’s Bio: Jim’s career path has taken him through government agencies, Fortune 10 corporations, and start-ups. Through them all, his passion has remained consistent – applying new technologies to workgroups. In each case asking how they can be leveraged to collaborate and cooperate more effectively. Jim loves ideas, creation, and building opportunities. He loves working with teams who are passionate about the future, pushing boundaries, and inclusion. His goal with all technologies is to increase beneficial contact between people and reduce the bureaucratic noise which so often tends to increase costs and destroy creativity. Jim is the author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book Personal Kanban (use the link to buy a copy and support the podcast). He is a noted expert in business process, personal work management, and the application of Lean to personal work and life. Jim believes that the best process is the least process necessary to achieve goals. He has zero tolerance for process waste. All said, Jim enjoys helping people and teams work out sticky problems, an advocate of people actually seeing their work, and inventing new ways to work at the intersection of Lean thinking, brain science, and leadership. Contact Jim Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourfounder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson Personal Kanban: http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/#sthash.MtOA96sV.dpbs Modus Cooperandi: http://moduscooperandi.com/ Re-Read Saturday News Today we dive into the concept of the Law of Small Numbers, chapter 10 in our re-read of Thinking, Fast and Slow.  I found this chapter particularly useful because I see the results in the process improvement world nearly every day.  It is great to experiment but make sure you get enough observations so that when you draw a conclusion it will be correct.  Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy.  Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon,  It’s time to get reading!   The installments: Week 1: Logistics and Introduction – http://bit.ly/2UL4D6h Week 2: The Characters Of The Story – http://bit.ly/2PwItyX Week 3: Attention and Effort – http://bit.ly/2H45x5A Week 4: The Lazy Controller – http://bit.ly/2LE3MQQ Week 5: The Associative Machine – http://bit.ly/2JQgp8I Week 6: Cognitive Ease – http://bit.ly/2VTuqVu Week 7: Norms, Surprises, and Causes – http://bit.ly/2Molok2 Week 8: A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions - http://bit.ly/2XOjOcx  Week 9: How Judgement Happens and Answering An Easier Question - http://bit.ly/2XBPaX3  Week 10:  Law of Small Numbers - http://bit.ly/2JcjxtI  Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 554 will feature our essay on the misuse of the word 'collaboration', and how to recognize when are talking about something else (like a lecture).   We will also hear from Gene Hughson!    

Insights from two days of Personal Kanban training w/ Amitai Schleier A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of taking a class put on by Modus Cooperandi called “Individual, Team, & Project Success: Personal Kanban" with Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria, authors of the book Personal Kanban. Even though personal kanban is a system I am very familiar with, I was psyched to be able to take the class because I was confident that spending two days with Jim and Toni was going to have a deep impact. One surprise benefit was that I finally got a chance to meet Amitai Schleier in person. Both Amitai and I had a lot of valuable takeaways from the class. In this episode of The Reluctant Agilist, we share what we learned from our time with Jim and Toni and some of the challenges each of us face day-to-day in dealing with limiting our WIP and managing flow. Both of us highly recommend taking any training you can with Jim and Tonianne. They are brilliant and come from diverse backgrounds, which is part of what makes their classes so insightful. Upcoming Modus Leadership Class in NYC: Leader Standard Work in the Office: How to Be a Lean / Agile Leader or Work... https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leader-standard-work-in-the-office-how-to-be-a-lean-agile-leader-or-work-with-one-tickets-58671636444 Amitai’s Upcoming Events Webinar: "Mob Programming Explained" https://schmonz.com/talk/2019-smartbear (April 11, 2019) Deliver Agile https://schmonz.com/talk/2019-deliveragile (May 1, 2019) Big Apple Scrum Day: "Two Midwesterners Politely Invite You To Explore Coding" https://schmonz.com/talk/2019-basd/ (May 10, 2019) Contacting Amitai Amitai on the web: https://schmonz.com Amitai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/schmonz Agile in 3 Minutes Podcast: https://agilein3minut.es Modus Cooperandi Links: Personal Kanban: http://personalkanban.com/pk/ Lean Coffee: https://moduscooperandi.com/pk-lean-coffee Jim and Tonianne’s books and classes: https://moduscooperandi.com/books-and-classes Contacting Jim and Tonianne Jim Benson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourfounder Tonianne DeMaria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprezzatura The Reluctant Agilist is hosted on ProjectManagement.com. This podcast may not be copied or reused without their permission.

Jim Benson has been involved with Agile since the very beginning. You may know him as creator of Personal Kanban, as the co-creator of Lean Coffee, through his work as CEO of Modus Cooperandi, his books, or from the many awards he’s won for his work in applying Lean practices to knowledge work. After years watching Agile being misused, misunderstood, and seeing it “calcify and solidify because of commercialization”, Jim’s new project The Agile Heretic is focused on calling attention to many of the things people are doing that are causing Agile to not work. In the videos and blog posts, Jim takes on a wide range of Agile related topics, he explores why things are off the rails and how to address them. In this interview Jim and I talk through what led to him creating this series, his hopes for it and what he is looking forward to seeing in the future of Agile. We also touch on some specific topics (like why he doesn’t like Story Points) and he shares a bunch of great stories (like why a group of developers once passed the hat amongst themselves and smuggled him into their company after their organization deemed his ideas too dangerous to their way of working. Note: During the podcast, Jim makes multiple references to the Kuhn Cycle, You can find some basic info on it here: Kuhn Cycle: http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/KuhnCycle.htm Agile Heretic Links - here are two places to get started: YouTube: YouTube https://youtu.be/CmfZvdGWKv4 Medium: https://medium.com/@ourfounder/the-agile-heretic-an-introduction-29992e52052c Jim at Agile 2018 Jim will be leading a Stalwarts session at Agile 2018 called “Ask the Agile Heretic Almost Anything” You can find more about that here: https://agile2018.sched.com/event/EUEU/ask-the-agile-heretic-almost-anything-jim-benson-jim-benson For more in Jim and his work: Modus Cooperandi http://moduscooperandi.com Jim on Twitter https://twitter.com/ourfounder Jim’s books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2LWuhx1 Personal Kanban http://personalkanban.com/pk/ Lean Coffee http://leancoffee.org

Software Process and Measurement Cast 400 features our interview with Jim Benson. Jim and I talked about personal Kanban, micromanagement, work-in-process limits, pattern matching, Pomodoro and more. A great interview to cap our first 400 episodes! Jim’s career path has taken him through government agencies, Fortune 10 corporations, and start-ups. Through them all his passion has remained consistent – applying new technologies to workgroups. In each case asking how they can be leveraged to collaborate and cooperate more effectively. Jim loves ideas, creation, and building opportunities. He loves working with teams who are passionate about the future, pushing boundaries, and inclusion. His goal with all technologies is to increase beneficial contact between people and reduce the bureaucratic noise which so often tends to increase costs and destroy creativity. Jim is the author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book Personal Kanban (use the link to buy a copy and support the podcast). He is a noted expert in business process, personal work management, and the application of Lean to personal work and life. Jim believes that the best process is the least process necessary to achieve goals. He has zero tolerance for process waste. All said, Jim enjoys helping people and teams work out sticky problems, an advocate of people actually seeing their work, and inventing new ways to work at the intersection of Lean thinking, brain science, and leadership.   Contact Jim Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourfounder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson Personal Kanban: http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/#sthash.MtOA96sV.dpbs Modus Cooperandi: http://moduscooperandi.com/   Re-Read Saturday News This week we continue the Re-read Saturday of  Kent Beck’s XP Explained, Second Edition with a discussion of Chapters 2 and 3.  The first two chapters in section One provide us with an overview of the conceptual framework that underpins XP.  Use the link to XP Explained in the show notes when you buy your copy to read along to support both the blog and podcast. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Blog (www.tcagley.wordpress.com) to catch up on past installments of Re-Read Saturday.   Next SPaMCAST The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature our essay on listening.  Effective listening is CRITICAL to every aspect of software development  and maintenance. Listening is a complex set of tasks that is more than simply receiving audio data. You also need to interpret that data. We will also have columns from Jeremy Berriault who brings us the QA Corner and Jon M. Quigley’s second column which covers the gamut of product development.   Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: “This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.” Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

Recording Venue: WebEx Guest: Jim Benson Jim Benson is CEO of Modus Cooperandi, a collaborative management consultancy in Seattle, Washington. After being steeped in Agile for many years, Jim started working with Kanban and Lean thinking in 2005. In 2008, he started taking this idea further with Personal Kanban, which brings flow based work to the […]

Joining me for episode #155 is Jim Benson, author of the book Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life. Jim is the founder of a company with a great name, Modus Cooperandi. He is, most notably, the creator of the "personal kanban" approach for managing work. It's not kanban as in material management, but rather a way of visualizing work and setting WIP limits (much as kanban might be used to trigger or limit production in a factory) -- but for knowledge workers and anybody! Learn more about this approach on his "Personal Kanban 101" site. - see leanblog.org/155 for links. You can learn more about the book and interact with Jim at http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/ To point others to this, use the simple URL: www.leanblog.org/155. You can find links to posts related to this podcast there, as well. Please leave a comment and join the discussion about the podcast episode. For earlier episodes of the Lean Blog Podcast, visit the main Podcast page at www.leanpodcast.org, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple iTunes. You can also listen to streaming episodes of the podcast via Stitcher: http://landing.stitcher.com/?vurl=leanblog If you have feedback on the podcast, or any questions for me or my guests, you can email me at leanpodcast@gmail.com or you can call and leave a voicemail by calling the "Lean Line" at (817) 776-LEAN (817-776-5326) or contact me via Skype id "mgraban". Please give your location and your first name. Any comments (email or voicemail) might be used in follow ups to the podcast.