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BONUS: X-Matrix and Obeya: How to Make Strategy Visible and Actionable for Everyone with Jim Benson and Karl Scotland In this BONUS episode, we explore the groundbreaking work of two renowned agilists - Karl Scotland and Jim Benson. Together, they've developed innovative approaches to making strategy accessible and actionable across organizations. We delve into how their combined expertise in X-Matrix strategy deployment and Obeya visualization creates powerful frameworks for aligning teams and keeping strategic conversations alive throughout execution. The Genesis of Strategic Visualization "It's not about whether agile works or not. It's about whether your business is being successful." Karl Scotland shares how his journey from tactical agile practices to strategic thinking began with a deceptively simple question: "How will we know if this agile thing is working?" This fundamental inquiry exposed a common gap in organizations - the disconnect between implementation methodologies and measurable business outcomes. Karl explains how this led him to develop the X-Matrix, a powerful visualization tool that connects true north, aspirations, strategies, tactics, and evidence on a single page, creating coherence across organizational efforts. Jim Benson reflects on his complementary path, observing how organizations often focus intensely on transformations without creating clear alignment between corporate needs, team activities, and customer value. This absence of a "full story" connecting strategic intent to daily work leaves teams uncertain if they're actually doing the right things. Jim highlights how their combined approach addresses this critical gap through collaborative strategy development and visual management. Seeing Strategy, Tactics, and Work in One Place "Strategy has often been things that C-level people do when they go on a retreat to Cancun...and everybody's like 'why?' and they're like 'Cancun'...the story of how that came about isn't there." Karl and Jim introduce their innovative approaches to making strategy visible and actionable. The X-Matrix provides a powerful framework for capturing the five key elements of strategy (True North, Aspirations, Strategies, Tactics, and Evidence) on a single sheet, showing how these elements correlate. This creates a comprehensive strategic story that answers what an organization is doing, why they're doing it, how they'll know it's working, and what success ultimately looks like. This strategic framework then comes to life in the Obeya room, which Jim describes as a physical or virtual space containing a family of visualizations. These include value stream maps, A3s, time series data, personal Kanbans, collaborative problem-solving tools, and KPIs - all designed to support the execution of the strategy articulated in the X-Matrix. By bringing these elements together, teams can maintain a living strategic conversation, allowing for continuous learning and adaptation based on real evidence. In this section, we also refer to:  Esko Kilpi's Interactive Value Creation blog, where he explores different aspects of value creation, including how conversations are the core interaction pattern. The Catch-ball process from Lean The Backbriefing, From Stephen Bungay's book The Art of Action   Maintaining Living Strategic Conversations "You don't create an annual strategy, but you create a living strategic conversation within the organization." The power of connecting X-Matrix and Obeya approaches lies in their ability to catalyze and sustain meaningful strategic conversations. Karl describes the X-Matrix as an "architecture for your Obeya" and emphasizes the importance of continuous strategy development rather than static planning. He introduces concepts like "catch-ball" from Lean and "backbriefing" from military commander Stephen Bungay, which create feedback loops to ensure shared understanding and effective execution. Jim highlights how this approach transforms strategy from an annual event into an ongoing dialogue where everyone can see how their work connects to larger goals. He emphasizes the importance of choosing language carefully, noting his appreciation for Karl's use of "evidence" rather than "metrics" - a subtle but significant distinction that encourages learning and psychological safety rather than mere measurement. This creates environments where people feel safe to discuss what's actually happening rather than hiding problems. The Changing Landscape of Agile and Strategy "I want people to own the process themselves, which is the agreements of how they will interact, and then they deploy tools like their Obeya to facilitate that process and those interactions." When discussing the recent PMI and Agile Alliance merger, both speakers offer thoughtful perspectives on the evolution of agile methodologies. Jim describes this as part of an ongoing commodification of agile practices, suggesting that we're entering a post-framework era where teams can draw from multiple approaches to craft ways of working that suit their specific context rather than adhering to rigid methodologies. Karl reflects on how the early agile community started with like-minded people coming together to share ideas and be "heretics," but eventually evolved into larger, more commercially-driven conferences and organizations. He sees the future in smaller, more focused communities of practice developing around specific interests or approaches - like the collaboration he and Jim have renewed with their course and strategic visualization work. Creating Professional Engagement Through Visualization "The word 'evidence' is a painfully poignant word... Evidence is something that grows over time based on investigation." A fascinating insight from this conversation is Jim's observation about the transformative power of visualization and language in creating psychological safety. He notes that when organizations approach their Kanban or Obeya with a learning mindset - seeking evidence rather than just tracking metrics - the entire conversation changes. Problems become opportunities for learning rather than failures to hide. Karl's careful choice of terminology in his TASTE model (True North, Aspirations, Strategies, Tactics, Evidence) reflects this intention, deliberately moving away from terms like "annual targets" or "process metrics" to encourage more holistic thinking. This approach helps create environments where strategic conversations can flourish across organizational boundaries, keeping everyone aligned on both direction and progress. About Karl Scotland and Jim Benson Karl Scotland is known for his groundbreaking work with the X-Matrix, integrating Agile principles with strategic planning. His innovative approach focuses on aligning True North, aspirations, strategies, tactics, and evidence into a single, collaborative visualization. Karl has extensive experience helping organizations develop continuous strategy development practices that connect strategic intent with execution. You can link with Karl Scotland on LinkedIn. Jim Benson is the visionary author of Personal Kanban and The Collaboration Equation. Jim's expertise lies in collaborative management, visualizing work, and fostering humane, team-driven environments. Through his work at Modus Institute, Jim helps organizations create systems that support continuous improvement and meaningful workplace conversations. You can link with Jim Benson on LinkedIn.

Hi there.I hope you're well.This week I talk with writer and project consultant, Claire Emerson, about something that has radically improved the way I do things, and that is Personal Kanban.If you ever suffer with procrastination or are feeling even the slightest bit overloaded, Personal Kanban is a great place to start. Developed by Jim Benson, Personal Kanban is a tactile, visual task management system that helps you:* organise* prioritise* and track your work. It uses two main principles: visualising your work in an analogue setting, and limiting the amount of work you have on your metaphorical plate at any one time. I find that it really provides clarity, reduces stress, and increases efficiency. Especially if you are more inclined to the kinaesthetic or visual learning styles like me.So whether you're trying to optimise your work so you feel more in control, or whether you have a massive list of family tasks that need to be coordinated, I can't recommend it enough.I hope you enjoy this chat with Claire.If you're interested in accessing Claire's free course on how to get started with personal kanban (which is where I started) here's the link:https://peopleloveprojects.ck.page/kanban-challengeClaire is also the curator of Flourish newsletter and the creator of Implement My Course — a free 10-day email course on how to apply what you learn without procrastination poisoning your progress, which you can join (free) here. You can check out Claire's other work at:People Love ProjectsThat's about it for me this week.Take care of yourself.Big hugRich Get full access to The Dad Mindset at www.thedadmindset.com/subscribe

As long as there have been agile teams there has been the challenge of putting people together and getting them to actually be agile. You can send them off to a class and teach them Scrum or Kanban, or bring in team coaches, and that helps, but it doesn't address one fundamental issue. Most people have not taken (or been given) the time they need to learn how to be agile in how they manage themselves as individuals. Michael Grill is a Product Owner and Head of Process and Methods in the Agile Practice at Knorr-Bremse, and they have taken steps to address this challenge of helping individuals adopt an agile mindset and practices in managing their day-to-day work by adopting Personal Kanban before they put them together on agile teams. In this interview Michael joins me to share how Knorr-Bremse came to make this choice and how it is deeply impacting their agile practice. First, you begin working with Personal Kanban, then you and your team members begin working together using PK, and then you adopt practices from Scrum, Kanban or other forms of agile, to get the work done. When Michael told me about the approach they had taken I was really excited to do the interview, because it just makes so much sense I was stunned that it had never occurred to me before. To add a little to the complexity, the work that Michael and his teams use agile to develop hardware like breaking systems for trains, and that adds a whole other dimension to how they incorporate agile. If you'd like to hear more about that, we covered it in a previous interview and there is link to it below as well as links to where you can learn more about Personal Kanban and even take a course in how to get started with it. Links:
 Using Agile to Develop Hardware with Michael Grill https://tinyurl.com/yc32jdc8 Personal Kanban site: https://www.personalkanban.com Personal Kanban Training at Modus Institute: https://modusinstitute.com Lean Agile Visual Management Certification: https://tinyurl.com/2m8pzaa7 My blog on Personal Kanban: https://tinyurl.com/33vb3rua Contacting Michael
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michael-grill
Twitter: twitter.com/actualMG

“Most of the failures in any project that I've ever been on have been due to lack of communication, lack of coordination, lack of respect for other people, overemphasis on procedure, as opposed to being able to react elegantly to changes in the situation that you're in.” - Jim Benson   This quote is from our guest on today's episode Jim Benson, who has extensively studied why people struggle to collaborate and is the author of Personal Kanban and The Collaboration Equation.   Jim joins our hosts Ben and Aaron on today's episode to have a crucial conversation about how relying on procedure can prevent progress, and more importantly, why people won't collaborate or why they can't seem to get it right.   It is clear that when done well, collaboration produces the highest quality outcome and it just feels good. But why do people struggle with it? This is the question that Jim, Ben, and Aaron discuss in today's episode, as well as how to collaborate effectively, the benefits of collaboration, how to assess your level of collaboration, dealing with conflict and frustrations within a group, and how to get leaders to get the most out of their team, and much much more.   If your team is missing deadlines, not seeing eye to eye, noticing more bugs, and the stress levels are high, or if you're just looking for ways to improve your collaborative efforts, this episode is for you.   You don't want to miss this one!   Topics discussed in this episode: A little bit about Jim's background Similarities between music and games Dealing with uncertainty through collaboration Incentivizing “pulling the cord” in collaboration vs. in knowledge work Producing value in teamwork vs. solo work Why don't leaders use collaboration more often? Do gamers want more complex tech? Improving sequels by removing the “bad stuff” instead of adding The best way to deal with stress Questions to ask yourself to gauge your level of collaboration Dealing with conflict when collaborating A healthy way to deal with unhealthy frustrations What is learned helplessness and how to deal with it How to make visualization effective for groups and teams   Check out what Jim Benson is up to by visiting his websites here: https://moduscooperandi.com/ https://modusinstitute.com   You can find Jim Benson's books here:    Personal Kanban: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Kanban-Mapping-Work-Navigating/dp/1453802266/   The Collaboration Equation: https://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Equation-Strong-Professionals-Delivery-ebook/dp/B0BHXDBG25 Sign up for the Building Better Games Newsletter for monthly tips to help you lead game teams! https://buildingbettergames.gg/newsletter/   Check out our website: https://buildingbettergames.gg/   If you've enjoyed this episode and wonder if we could help your studio or company out, email us at info@valarinconsulting.com to set up a free 90-minute call!   For more episodes, head to the Building Better Games Podlink https://www.pod.link/1559448378   Connect with us: https://www.tiktok.com/@building_better_games https://www.instagram.com/building_better_games/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/valarin-inc/   Content Editor: Jonathan Singh This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com

In this episode titled, "Time Management is Bullshido," Adam Hoots, takes listeners on a journey to enhance their time management skills and become more efficient in their daily lives. He begins by expressing gratitude for a positive review from Rafa Franca of his book, The Old Dog Lean Thesaurus, and invites further feedback for future improvements. Adam emphasizes the importance of personal clarity and understanding what one wants in life. He encourages listeners to identify their values, strengths, purpose, and long-term goals to gain a clear vision of their life's direction. Moving on, he delves into the concept of standard work and how creating a weekly work plan and personal Kanban board can help visualize and prioritize tasks effectively. Time blocking and time boxing take center stage as Adam discusses powerful time management techniques. He explains how time blocking helps in allocating specific time slots for various tasks, while time boxing sets time limits to improve productivity and efficiency. Furthermore, he stresses the significance of leader standard work, aligning daily activities with life goals, and cultivating leadership skills. Adam brings attention to embracing Lean principles, particularly living in the Eisenhower Matrix quadrant of tasks that are important but not urgent. He urges listeners to apply Lean principles to their daily lives, continuously improve their productivity, and strive to be better each day. In conclusion, he encourages experimentation with different productivity techniques and a commitment to growth and progress. For those seeking further knowledge, he recommends Jim Benson's Personal Kanban class and Felipe Engineer-Manriquez's Scrum class as valuable resources for continued learning and implementation.   ABOUT HOOTS ON THE GROUND PODCAST: The Lean Builder's absolutely, positively NO Bullshido podcast. Join Host Adam Hoots and his guests as they dig deep into the topics that are relevant to those of us who “get it”: the men and women with the dirty boots, the ones who work in the field, doing the hands-on business of construction each day. Listen in as we keep it real while stories from the trenches are shared along with lessons learned and some laughter along the way.   RESOURCE LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: ·        www.theleanbuilder.com | Our main blog, book, resources, news & events website   GUESTS FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE: ·        Adam Hoots | www.linkedin.com/in/adam-hoots-4645519/ | podcast host for “Hoots on the Ground” and Lean Construction Shepherd with ConstructionACHEsolutions   SPONSORED BY: ·        BOSCH RefinemySite | www.bosch-refinemysite.us

Why Use a Personal Kanban Approach? Research shows that up to 80% of working professionals experience stress in the workplace, with the primary causes cited as being family responsibilities and large workloads. When modified for personal use, the Kanban method can help you to manage both work responsibilities and personal tasks, saving you time, increasing your efficiency, keeping your life organized, and helping to prevent feelings of overwhelm and burnout.  In this article, we'll delve deeper into what personal Kanban involves. We'll show you how you can use it to streamline your personal and professional lives, and the easiest ways to keep Kanban on hand to access it whenever you need it. You can apply the principles of Kanban to virtually any situation to enhance your productivity and help you tackle multiple responsibilities. It can be easily adapted to users of any age, profession or learning style, and is especially well suited to people who have long and constantly growing to-do lists at work and at home. Personal Kanban boards are also a great solution for people who battle to prioritize tasks. Options like a personal Kanban app provide visual to-do lists that you can prioritize by urgency or order of importance to stay ahead of your responsibilities. The simplest and most effective way to create your own Kanban board is to open up an Excel spreadsheet or Word document, use a whiteboard or a piece of paper, or use a Kanban management app to create three columns:  To Do Currently In Progress  Completed Next, you can create individual ‘cards' for each task you need to do, adding them into the To Do column. Once you have all of your cards at hand, you can label them according to low, medium or high priority, and then choose which high-priority task you'd like to start on first. Some people like to multitask, and a personal Kanban board does help to make multitasking easier by allowing you to keep track of multiple projects at once. However, you are also free to address one activity at a time. When you start an activity, move its card over to the In Progress column, and then to the Completed column once it's finished.  You can use a Kanban board to keep track of all the things you need to accomplish on a given day. Creating a to-do list helps you to organize your tasks into categories, depending on how urgent they are and whether or not you have started on them yet.  This gives you clear visual progress of how many responsibilities you've tackled each day. This could be anything from going to the store, fetching the kids from school, fixing an appliance or learning how to make an invoice or mastering another skill you need for work. When you have a good idea during the course of the day, noting it in your Kanban board helps to ensure that you don't forget about it and encourages you to put it into action.  Once you have a strong idea written down, you can then build on it, set goals towards it, and transform your ideas into reality. If you have a busy and active family or social life, your personal Kanban board can help you to meet all of your personal obligations towards the people you care about.  Create a family board with tasks like children's play recitals and sports games, birthday parties, celebrations, family dinners, and other can't-miss events to keep yourself organized and ensure that you don't miss anything important.  Using a Kanban board with your family will help to ensure that everyone's needs are met and that you can build a stronger relationship with your partner, children, and extended family and friends. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] ⁠https://www.agiledad.com/⁠ - [instagram] ⁠https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/⁠ - [facebook] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/⁠ - [Linkedin] ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/⁠

Jim Benson is back again on the Xagility podcast. This time we talk about his book "The Collaboration Equation", lessons from billion dollar construction projects, obeya rooms, humble hubris, building what people need as well as leadership structure and unachievable KPIs. Join us on this fun and informative episode! About Jim Benson: After three decades as a business owner, team leader, and employee in both companies and government agencies, Jim found there is one key factor in every organization. They take on more than we can finish. Almost every client (individual or organizational) Jim has worked with, regardless of vertical, is overworked. Being overworked means they don't have time to pay attention to their work, its context, or their co-workers. This fosters hasty decisions made with a lack of information. These poor decisions create re-work, unnecessary emergencies, and unrewarding working conditions. Since writing Personal Kanban and winning the Shingo Research Award, Jim has had the good fortune to: * work with Fortune 10 companies, major world governments, and the most dynamic startups * monthly keynote conferences globally * be interviewed in major publications including Time, Newsweek, Wired, LifeHacker, The New York Times, the Times of London, Inc, and Businessweek. Connect with Jim: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson/ Email: jim@moduscooperandi.com Twitter: @ourfounder Website: moduscooperandi.com About John Coleman: John Coleman's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ John Coleman's website: https://orderlydisruption.com/ Looking to get your Scrum/Agility training? Check out my courses at: https://orderlydisruption.com/collections/courses Thank you for listening. #scrum #kanban #agile #managementconsulting --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/xagility/message

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.

Ist Erfolg harte oder doch eher smarte Arbeit? Welche Rolle spielt Glück dabei? Pia Tischer, Gründerin & CEO von coveto ATS, berichtet uns in dieser Folge, wie ihr Erfolg über Nacht kam, und zwar nach 15 Jahren harter Arbeit. Es geht ums Scheitern auf dem Weg zum beruflichen Erfolg und um die smarte Planung mit Hilfe der Personal-Kanban-Methode. Mehr zu Pia findest Du hier: https://s.coveto.de/5cbd0152 Der 1-Minuten Recruiter - 60 Impulse zur Mitarbeitergewinnung. Workbook: 60 Tage, die Dich und Dein Unternehmen verändern werden. https://www.coveto.de/podcast Der Podcast für Unternehmer, Geschäftsführer und Personalverantwortliche Streng vertraulich! Unternehmergeheimnisse mit Pia Tischer https://www.coveto.de/newsletter Abonniere Pias Newsletter und erhalte jeden Mittwoch eine E-Mail, mit der Du bessere Mitarbeiter findest und mit deinem Team Höchstleistungen vollbringst. Highlight-Folgen aus meiner Sicht: #052: Der chinesische Tellerjongleur https://open.spotify.com/episode/6z6Hg7dXWFOk5QRxWgJhPG?si=72324c0b3e754bc4 #048 Das hat meine Produktivität enorm gesteigert https://open.spotify.com/episode/68jWsWFNe2Ssz4kjuZh0XK?si=2a70efc633a249ba --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nebenbei-produktiv/message

Jak zbudować efektywny zespół profesjonalistów? A co to właściwie znaczy "profesjonalista"? Zapraszam do drugiego odcinka poświęconego koncepcji zespołu. Jeśli widzimy wartość w pracy zespołowej, to powinna ona prowadzić do osiągnięcia wspólnego celu (ang. collaboration), a nie jedynie współpracy w celu realizacji osobnych celów (ang. cooperation). O tym, kim są profesjonaliści, jak budować z nich zespoły, jak może pomóc w tym wizualizacja i jakie często popełniamy przy tym błędy zapytałem Jima Bensona. Możecie kojarzyć Jima z odcinka o Personal Kanban (Odcinek 14. Personal Kanban - gość: Jim Benson). Tym razem okazją jest temat współpracy, który zbiega się w czasie z premierą jego nowej książki pt. "The Collaboration Equation" (The Collaboration Equation), w której opowiada o swojej formule na solidny profesjonalizm, zespoły i dostarczanie wartości. Jim dzieli się kilkoma ciekawymi historiami oraz wskazówkami również dla zespołów pracujących w rozproszeniu czy modelu hybrydowym. Link do wpisu: https://www.tinyurl.com/4epe7bw9

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. 

Eine Episode über To-Ddo-Listen? Obwohl wir vor nicht allzu langer Zeit darüber berichtet haben, dass To-do-Listen nicht funktionieren? Ja, diese Episode hat seine Berechtigung – denn diese Liste ist anders. Sie folgt einem ähnlichen Prinzip wie das des Personal Kanban. Du willst mehr wissen? Dann hör rein!

“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 dieser Episode erfährst du: - wie Julia als selbstständige Rechtsanwältin und Mutter von zwei Kindern sich organisiert - was sich für sie durch _Mission Kopf-frei!_ geändert hat - und wie jetzt mehr erledigt und weniger macht.

Es gibt immer wieder Warnsignale, mit denen Dein Personal Kanban System Dir zeigt, dass hier etwas aus dem Ruder läuft. Wir schauen uns 7 davon an und diskutieren Reaktionsmöglichkeiten.Hat es Euch gefallen? Habt Ihr Verbesserungsvorschläge, Fragen oder Themenwünsche? Kommt auf mich zu:Ihr könnt die Folge auf https://www.personal-agility-podcast.de/ kommentieren  und diskutieren.Twitter @p_a_pc Instagramm @p_a_pc Facebook

This interview was originally recorded with video. If you'd like to check out that version you can find it here: https://bit.ly/3rtJEDd Jim Benson is finishing up work on a new book The Collaboration Equation and in this episode of the podcast, the creator of Personal Kanban joins me to talk all about why we often resist collaboration, and why it is a necessary element of everything each of us does. Working through a number of real-life examples we discuss some of the ingredients you need to design a system that supports its participants and fosters a culture of collaboration. This interview is going to challenge your understanding of collaboration, offer you a lens to see collaboration in a deeper, more lasting way, and offer you a sneak peek of what is coming up in Jim's new book. Links from the Podcast: Personal Kanban: https://www.personalkanban.com/ Lean-Agile Visual Management on Modus Institute: https://www.modusinstitute.com/lavm Jim's Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3JQEEyX Contacting Jim Benson: Web: https://moduscooperandi.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbenson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ourfounder Email: jim@moduscooperandi.com

Jim Benson joins John Coleman on this week's episode to discuss a lifetime of experience, Jim's Book 'The Collaboration Equation', the system of humane management, leadership & tangibles as well as advice on how to tackle the common stakeholder question 'when will it be done?', what goes on in the obeya rooms and why the most beautiful boards look like a huge mess. Time stamps: 1:10 - Jim's story & the beginning of Modus Cooperandi 4:25 - Coping strategies for large scale projects with lots of dependencies 6:49 - Jim's book ‘The Collaboration Equation' 8:22 - Personal Kanban: a deeper look 13:25 - The system of humane management 24:09 - Leadership & tangibles 27:05 - ‘When will it be done?' 31:57 - Obeya Rooms 44:34 - ‘The most beautiful board looks like a fricking mess' --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xagility/message

Jim Benson joins John Coleman on this week's episode to discuss a lifetime of experience, Jim's Book 'The Collaboration Equation', the system of humane management, leadership & tangibles as well as advice on how to tackle the common stakeholder question 'when will it be done?', what goes on in the obeya rooms and why the most beautiful boards look like a huge mess. Time stamps: 1:10 - Jim's story & the beginning of Modus Cooperandi 4:25 - Coping strategies for large scale projects with lots of dependencies 6:49 - Jim's book ‘The Collaboration Equation' 8:22 - Personal Kanban: a deeper look 13:25 - The system of humane management 24:09 - Leadership & tangibles 27:05 - ‘When will it be done?' 31:57 - Obeya Rooms 44:34 - ‘The most beautiful board looks like a fricking mess' --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xagility/message

Falls du schon einmal mit Personal Kanban zu tun hattest oder die vorige Episode angehört hast, dann hast du sicher unterschiedliche Personal-Kanban-Boards vor Augen. Hast du dich schon einmal gefragt, welche Form die richtige ist? Welche Spalten sinnvoll sind und welche nur Ballast? Die Antwort ist simpel: Es gibt kein Richtig oder Falsch, aber jede Menge Optionen, die du ausprobieren kannst. Hör rein!

Personal Kanban ist ein visuelles Zeit- oder Projektmanagementsystem, das aus dem Optimierungsgedanken des „Lean Manufacturing“ von Toyota hervorgegangen ist. Es basiert auf zwei Grundsätzen: der Visualisierung von Arbeit/Aufgaben Limitierung der parallelen Arbeit („Work in Progress“). Du willst wissen, wie du mit Personal Kanban produktiver wirst, besser priorisieren kannst und dich weniger verzettelst? Dann hör rein!

“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster.” It took a moment of epiphany on a Brooklyn park bench, and becoming a father, for my guest today, recovering productivity hacker and Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman, to see the truth. We're all going to die. And soon: in fact, after about four thousand weeks. That's the animating idea of his new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. But facing our finitude frees us to give up on the myth of a stress-free future, embrace the discomfort of failure, focus on the present, and make more thoughtful trade-offs. Maybe even start to allow time to use us, rather than the other way round. We talk about parenting, the role of religion, to-do lists, the regulation of time by states and churches, the pleasures of hiking, the Northern Lights, the sabbath, and much more. Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman is a writer and recovering productivity hacker. His new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, is about making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity (and 'productivity techniques' that mainly just make everyone feel busier). More Burkeman  Oliver is also author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012) and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011), a collection of his Guardian columns. Follow Oliver on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/oliverburkeman. Sign up for his twice-weekly newsletter, The Imperfectionist, and check out his website here: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/ Also Mentioned  See Krista Tippett's project, On Being I mentioned Jon Elster's work on “willing what cannot be willed”, this appears in his chapter on “Sour Grapes”, available here.  Oliver referred to Alison Gopnik's book The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children We mentioned Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life by Nicole Roccas Oliver referred to the book Personal Kanban by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry We discussed research on vacations in Sweden, for more see Terry Hartig's work on “restorative environments” The Dialogues Team  Creator: Richard Reeves Artwork: George Vaughan Thomas Tech Support: Cameron Hauver-Reeves Music: "Remember" by Bencoolen (thanks for the permission, guys!)

Keeping all our tasks organised is itself a difficult task. School, work, personal projects... sometimes things get really confusing! This is why today we'll learn together a super easy way to keep all our projects in check: the method is called personal Kanban, and I'm sure you'll love it as much as I do! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/subtitleditalian/message

Wenn du viele verschiedene Aufgaben auf dem Zettel hast, die aber alle in unterschiedlichen Stadien der Bearbeitung stecken, kann dir ein Kanban-Board eine riesige Hilfe sein. Ich zeige dir heute, wie es funktioniert und wie du es anwenden kannst. Die Kanban-Methode gibt es schon seit mehr als 70 Jahren. Sie wurde ursprünglich entwickelt, um die Produktion in den Autowerken von Toyota zu optimieren. Doch du kannst sie dir ohne weiteres auch für dein eigenes Zeitmanagement zu Nutze machen – und zwar egal, ob du private oder berufliche Aufgaben oder beides optimieren willst. Skript zur Episode: https://zeitplanerin.de/kanban/

Kanban als Werkzeug ist für Teams schon seit längerer Zeit bekannt und bei vielen Teams beliebt. Bei uns bei der Ministry Group arbeiten alle Teams seit Jahren mit individuellen Kanban Boards und täglichen Standups. Aber geht das eigentlich auch als Individuum, so ganz für sich selbst? Und vielleicht sogar auch nicht nur im beruflichen Kontext, sondern auch für die privaten Aufgaben? Andreas Ollmann und David Cummins sprechen mit Susanne Reppin darüber, wie Teams messen können, was sie erreichen, und damit besser planen können. Warum sie das Wort “priorisieren” nicht so gut findet. Über Gesundheit. Ihr analoge Kanban-Mappe. Und wie mittlerweile sogar ihr Kind mit Kanban arbeitet. Weitere Informationen unter worklife.ministry.de.

This interview was originally recorded in July 2013 and posted to Projects at Work. The original blog post and posting of the recording were lost when P@W became part of Project Management.com. BUT Johanna is brilliant and I learn a ton from her every time we talk. Also, Personal Kanban is REALLY important. So I found the original post and am reposting to fix the broken link on my index of Personal Kanban blog posts and podcast. (Which you can find here: https://drunkenpm.blogspot.com/2014/10/summary-of-personal-kanban-posts-for.html) This conversation centers around one of the topics in Johanna's book Manage Your Job Search (https://leanpub.com/manageyourjobsearch) and her article on how to use Personal Kanban for your Job Hunt (https://www.jrothman.com/htp/agile-job-search/2013/04/personal-kanban-for-your-job-hunt/) If you'd like to learn more about Johanna, her work and her writing: https://www.jrothman.com/

If you'd prefer to watch the video version of this interview you can find it here: https://vimeo.com/517256016 Mark Hodgdon is Product and Project Manager at Aspirent, an Atlanta-based management consulting firm focusing on Data Analytics, Cloud Development, and Project Execution. His role is also often called on to serve as Scrum Master and Product Owner. He also manages and plays in a band and has a family with two kids recently out of college. When you put all this together, it results in a MASSIVE list of things that Mark needs to do. And he manages it all using Personal Kanban. In this special video podcast interview Mark and I talk through the different ways he is using Personal Kanban to manage all the things on his plate. Mark shares the different boards he uses to keep his work sorted and also shows what he has started doing to track performance metrics on his use of Personal Kanban. If you are looking for a great example of how Personal Kanban or agile practices can be used on a personal level or to manage non-work projects, or if you are looking to get started with agile and either don't have an opportunity at work or don't know where to start, this podcast is for you! If you’d like to learn more about Personal Kanban, here are some links: Web: Personal Kanban (Modus Cooperandi): https://www.personalkanban.com Book: Personal Kanban: https://amzn.to/3somNXL And if you’d like to contact Mark Gmail: mdhodgdon@gmail.com Work Email: mark.hodgdon@aspirent.com  Aspirent Website: https://aspirent.com And if you want to check out Mark’s band, Brewery Road Web: https://www.breweryroadatl.com/

Co-author of the book Personal KanbanShow notes: http://www.leanblog.org/401My guest for Episode #401 is my friend Jim Benson, who you might know as the co-author of the book Personal Kanban (and we talked about that in Episode 155, back in 2012). He was also a guest on Episode #4 of "My Favorite Mistake" with me.We recorded this using the LinkedIn Live platform. Jim and I have talked a lot (and collaborated) over the years, so we intentionally went into this conversation without much of a plan.The main theme is "humane management," a phrase of Jim's that I really like. We talk about workplaces, psychological safety (listen to my episode with Amy Edmondson on that), learned helplessness, respect, autonomy, systems thinking, and more.We also jokingly brainstorm titles for a hypothetical podcast that we would do together. He is going to join me and Jamie Flinchbaugh for the next episode of the "Lean Whiskey" podcast, by the way. Is "Mark and Jim's Vomitorium of Management Ideas" a good name? Probably not.Jim's company, Modus Institute, has a new "Lean Agile Visual Management Certification and Accreditation Series," so please check it out.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.  

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

In diesem Interview beschreibt uns Stefan Willuda - Lead Agile Coach bei Idealo Internet - wie er seinem persönliches Kanban System mit Hilfe von "Gettings things Done" einen Boost gegeben hat.

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

Joe Krebs speaks with Jim Benson about Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee, things Jim created which we use in the agile community on a daily basis. We talk about the importance of collaboration in Personal Kanban and how much of an impact multi-tasking, silo conversation as well professionalism has on the quality of work.

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

Ich muss gestehen, ich bin ein wirklicher Liebhaber von Todo-Listen – ich muss mir alles aufschreiben. Selbst wenn ich gerade die Todo-Liste schreibe, dann schreibe ich manchmal Todos mit drauf, die ich gleich nachdem ich die Liste fertig geschrieben habe, machen möchte.

On this episode of the podcast I continue my discussion with Tim Nolan about his interest in all things project management including, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and personal Kanban, and how this can be used to make even the most complicated GIS workflows work for you.

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about: Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model The lost podcast Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban) … Continue reading →

In this previously lost and unreleased podcast from 2012 (we found it on a SD card that was thought to be lost forever), Craig catches up with Sandy Mamoli at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas and chat about Personal Kanban and how everything is bigger in Texas. It’s amazing how much hasn’t changed in this … Continue reading →

Time for another personal productivity and effectiveness podcast  (brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic), and the goal of this episode is “limit your WIP (work in progress). With due credit to Personal Kanban, WIP is a concept from Kanban that refers to the number of things that you are working on at any one time. In your personal life, it can be easy to say yes to too many things and overestimate your capacity. This can increase your stress level and make you ineffective, and result in poor quality output. This ties into re-evaluating what you are currently doing, as your priorities may change over time. Something that is low value now might be higher value tomorrow. This is one of the reasons we have changed our focus and release cadence at CRM Audio—by reducing the number of series and episodes we are producing, we can hopefully increase quality and value of the output. We also discuss some of the latest updates to some of our favorite productivity tools. OneNote desktop is back from the dead, and Matthew is excited about the Microsoft Fluid Framework and its promise of making office documents and applications work better together. We have discussed Microsoft MyAnalytics and how it can help you quantify how you are spending your work time by analyzing the digital dust of your meetings, emails, and conversations. But if you haven’t checked it out for a while, it has become significantly more useful—it will now proactively discuss focus time and block it off on your calendar, help you plan for upcoming meetings and see how what percentage of attendees have accepted and if you forgot to insert a web meeting link, and will block off time on your calendar to prepare for meetings or review documents that have been sent to you. We end with a review of one of our most frequently used tools, Snagit from TechSmith. You know how great it is for making screenshots, but did you know that you can also use it to record video screencasts? And that it is easy to take high quality screenshots from your video?

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»

Персональный канбан (Personal Kanban) — это интерактивная карта вашей занятости. Один из самых распространённых и доступных её вариантов — доска со стикерами, помогающая выполнять работу точно в срок. Само слово «канбан» переводится с японского как «рекламный щит». Оно пришло к нам с завода Toyota, где так называют систему организации производства.

If you haven't heard about Kanban before (which many of our productivity enthusiasts had not, so you're not alone!) started The post 061 Personal Kanban: Visualizing Your Productivity System appeared first on ProductivityCast.

Hello, and welcome to Getting More Done With Evernote. Do you use Evernote? Or, have an interest in keeping up with the Evernote product suite? Do you want to learn more about note-taking techniques and digital workflow design? Then, you’ve come to the right place. Each week I’ll dive into the latest, important changes to Evernote across the entire platform, have discussions with Evernoters, experts and users across the community on getting more done with Evernote. I’m your host, Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote user since 2009, Evernote Certified Consultant and Evernote Regional Leader for North America. As you can imagine, I love Evernote. And, with Getting More Done With Evernote, I hope to help everyone love Evernote, or at least digital note-taking, a little more. In addition to our timely product updates and expert interviews, I want to make this interactive with you, to bring you into the conversation. Do you have a question about how to make Evernote work with your workflow? Perhaps you need to build out Evernote for real estate transaction tracking. Or, you want help rethinking how Evernote can track your projects or tasks using Personal Kanban, or Getting Things Done (GTD)? Send us your Evernote questions and conundrums, and if we’re able to answer it, we’ll read or play it and answer it here on the podcast. Learn more and follow me at anchor.fm/gettingmoredone. So, that’s all for now. This is Ray Sidney-Smith, Evernote Certified Consultant, for Getting More Done With Evernote, signing out. Here’s to your productive life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gettingmoredone/message

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.

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/In this episode, I talk with author, founder and productivity guru Jim Benson. We get into: - Why to-do lists suck and why to use a ‘Personal Kanban’ instead- The story of Jim’s very first personal kanban - ‘The Crapban’- Why making your own kanban public can be a radical act- The importance of depersonalising our work- Why plans fail and what to do about itLinks:http://personalkanban.com/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/In this episode, I talk with author, founder and productivity guru Jim Benson. We get into: - Why to-do lists suck and why to use a ‘Personal Kanban’ instead- The story of Jim’s very first personal kanban - ‘The Crapban’- Why making your own kanban public can be a radical act- The importance of depersonalising our work- Why plans fail and what to do about itLinks:http://personalkanban.com/

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/In this episode, I talk with author, founder and productivity guru Jim Benson. We get into: - Why to-do lists suck and why to use a ‘Personal Kanban’ instead- The story of Jim’s very first personal kanban - ‘The Crapban’- Why making your own kanban public can be a radical act- The importance of depersonalising our work- Why plans fail and what to do about itLinks:http://personalkanban.com/

E14 Dimitri Ponomareff Co-Founder Kanban Zone In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Joe Pusz, PMO Joe has a great discussion with special guest Dimitri Ponomareff, Co-Founder & Agile Coach with KanbanZone.com. We also had scheduled Laura Barnard, Founder & CEO with PMO Strategies but due to technical challenges we weren t able to have […] The post E14 Dimitri Ponomareff Co-Founder Kanban Zone appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Jim Benson is the author of the global bestseller "Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life" and self-identified "Agile heretic." A strong proponent for the values and principles, collaboration, and teamwork, Benson nonetheless is vocal on social media about ways Agile can approve. An example is when Agile teams don't do any documentation, pointing at the Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Benson contends that people mistakenly turn this into a false dichotomy where the former is good and the latter is bad. But, he says, "You can't have interactions between individuals without process, and our process is facilitated by tools... The process is our social contract about how we are going to interact." He agrees that the Manifesto is good but it was written by "a bunch of guys going skiing" and a few relatively minor tweaks could make it more impactful. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

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

Join me as I interview Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria from ModusCooperandi. We will talk about their book "Personal Kanban" and all things Lean.

This episode is jam-packed with goodies! For Today’s Special, Tracy interviews Jim Benson, the coauthor of Personal Kanban. For the Appetizer we’ll review a free time tracking app called Toggl. For Lean Six Sigma In The News, we’ll find out… The post Podcast: Just-In-Time Cafe, Episode 31 – How to Balance Your Crap-to-Fun Ratio With a Personal Kanban, Featuring Shingo-Prize-Winning Author Jim Benson appeared first on GoLeanSixSigma.com.

Software Process and Measurement Cast 491 features our essay titled, Can “Done” Be Allowed To Break Production?  The most succinct answer to the question is always no, the story is not done. The reason is that the story is not implementable, and unless the goal of the story is to blow up production and anger customers it can’t be considered to be done. Susan Parente brings her Not a Scrumdamentalist column to the cast this week.  Susan discusses Kanban for You and Me.  The discussion focuses on personal Kanban and how to use it to guide your day to day activities effectively and efficiently. Kim Pries, the Software Sensi, anchors the cast this week.  Kim’s essay is titled Real Software Quality.  In this column, Kim warns us of the dangers of interventionism on quality. Re-Read Saturday News In week six of the re-read of L. David Marquet’s Turn the Ship Around! we tackle chapter 7, titled I Relieve You. I am breaking the two chapter pattern to layup so that we can have a clean start the second part of the book next week Chapter Seven completes Part One of the book.  Part one serves tells the story of how Captain Marquet came to be in command of the USSN Santa Fe rather than the Olympia. Much of Marquet’s leadership model was emergent (like design in agile). Change may occur even without a shock, such as Marquet’s reassignment, but adding energy will hasten change. In this case, the shock made the development of Marquet’s leadership model inevitable. Current Installment: Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Previous Installments: Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Upcoming Webinars and Conferences QAI Quest 2018 The Three Amigo’s Role in Agile May 21-25, 2018, San Antonio, Texas ISMA 15 May 11 Rome, Italy Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 492 will feature our recent interview with Murali Chemuturi.  Murali has just published a new book tilted Software Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Software Development Projects (Link https://amzn.to/2qMAgKW). The book offers practical design advice for anyone involved in software development.  We discussed the impact of design on usability, security and data architecture to name just a few areas. Note Murali and I co-authored Mastering Software Project Management (buy a copy! https://amzn.to/2F5LWxB).  

Personal Kanban hilft den Überblick bei den Aufgaben zu behalten, sich nicht zu viel vorzunehmen, und das, was man sich vornimmt auch abzuschließen.

How actors and role play might get you that pay rise, what is responsible leadership and the Personal Kanban: a low tech way to get organised

In this episode we cover: The 5 (and a half) commandments of an Organized Office Time yourself (organize like a 5-year-old) 1.5 - Strike when the iron is hot!     -Organize when you are motivated     -In ABR Episode 21 - Zack and Jim Benson talk about how "Personal Kanban" can help you be prepared to maximize your motivation. Group Like with Like Break out anything with action from everything else Keep your active projects visible Create smart to-do piles Declare your office a No ________ Zone Quotables: “We can make your office more beautiful- but I’m more concerned how to make it functional." Links and resources mention: Getting Things Done by David Allen Sexy Evernote Settings w/Stacy Harmon Radical Productivity – Evernote PowerUsers Course by Stacy Harmon Tools You'll Need  Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill TheInspiredOffice.com Connect with Kacy: Kacy Paide wants to live in a world where, regardless of square footage or budget, everyone lives inside a perfect balance of simplicity and beauty.  A Professional Organizer since 2001, she has helped nearly 600 people find what they need, when they need it, freeing them to live fuller lives both in and out of the office. TheInspiredOffice.com Instagram Facebook Pinterest YouTube Channel Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, PocketCast or your favorite podcast player. It’s easy, you’ll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure. The shownotes can be found at zacharysexton.com/25  

Jim Benson shows you how to understand your work on a much deeper level. Why? So you can do the best thing at any given time. Sounds difficult, right? It's not. Jim's methodology (Personal Kanban) is highly visual — you can see at a glance what needs to get done, what you’re working on, what your priorities are, and what you’ve accomplished. Personal Kanban has two rules: Visualize your work. Limit your work in progress. These rules (and some Post-It notes) will help you understand your work. And that understanding is the key to controlling it. Listen in and enjoy! Orange = Leverage, Grey = Grow & Serve Community, Yellow = Expand Skills, Blue = Admin In this episode we cover: Why people should operate at less than 60% capacity. How to visualize your work in a way that will make prioritization easy. What is a rosy retrospective and how to avoid it. When and how to review your done pile. Quotables: "Every task is a relationship. The more things we start, the more people will interrupt us." "We all have a lot of undiscovered us. So we need a place to put the ideas that we explore. Because if we don't explore. And we just do the tasks. We're kind of becoming machines." "As soon as you are able to define a repetitive process, you should try to get someone else to do it. Because as solopreneurs, we make money off of our ideas. We don't make money off of production." "We don't just outsource things, we pick collaborators." "The tool should match what you're trying to get."   "You want the (Kanban) board to tell you something you don't already know." Links and resources mention: Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson  Episode 4 of Able Business Radio Organizing Your Life w/ Trello (where we discuss Agile) Getting Things Done by David Allen Patrick Lencioni Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis Post It Notes Video of Interview Free Kanban Training Connect with Jim: Twitter: Personal: https://twitter.com/ourfounder Business: https://twitter.com/personalkanban Website: modusinstitute.com personalkanban.com Discount Code on Courses: PRODBIZ Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, PocketCast or your favorite podcast player. It’s easy, you’ll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure. The shownotes can be found at zacharysexton.com/21

A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to speak to Jim Benson in Melbourne. We met in a hotel restaurant and talked about why visualisation of invisible knowledge work is so powerful and why it can increase the happiness of you and your co-workers: We start with giving you an introduction into Personal Kanban and help you to create your own Personal Kanban board. We explore why limiting the work in progress is so powerful and what might happen when you take on to much work at the same time. Jim shares his favourite stories about “visualisation of work” from places like a hospital in Kenya to a family who uses Personal Kanban to organise the treatment plan of their elderly father. We talk about why managing workload is so hard and what we can do about it to stay focused. We finish with a deep dive into the psychology of happiness and why visualisation in companies can help you to stay focused and become a happy team mate.

During the 2017 Heart of Agile Conference in Pittsburgh, Savannah Rayat gave a presentation called “Enhancing your life with Personal Agility”. During the session she explained how she has applied some basic Agile practices from Scrum and Kanban to refine and focus her approach to life, deciding what is most important to her, and managing teams. Savannah has also applied Agile in other non-IT areas. During the interview, we talk about some of the Scrum practices she has applied in working with her team of Realtors. Show Notes 00:10 - Interview Begins 00:52 - Background on Savannah 01:42 - How Day-Trading fits in with being a Realtor/IT Professional 02:15 - How Savannah defines Personal Agility 04:44 - Savannah’s approach to Personal Kanban and her issue with deadlines 05:31 - The important of setting and maintaining WIP Limits 07:06 - Reducing your WIP to 3-4 10:00 - Preventing the backlash of cutting stuff our of your life 12:15 - Having affection for your interests 12:42 - Deciding what you can live without 14:29 - Long term and short term road mapping 15:48 - Savannah’s Day to Day practice of Agile 18:50 - The need for slack 21:35 - The benefits of self-reflection and coping with the guilt of doing unplanned stuff 23:16 - Making the time for Personal Kanban 24:19 - Accountability Partners 25:33 - How to get started with using Personal Agility 27:44 - How Savannah uses Scrum to support collaboration on her Real Estate team 32:38 - Getting in touch with Savannah 34:39 - Interview Ends Contacting Savannah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannah-rayat-8942b8120/ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SavannahRayat Savannah’s Realty site: http://rayatrealtygroup.com Savannah’s Heart of Agile 2017 http://heartofagile.com/Session/enhancing-your-life-with-personal-agility/

After mentioning Personal Kanban last episode, Chuck went back to the archive and pulled out his episode called, "Introduction to Kanban". In it, Chuck provides a high-level overview of Kanban, Personal Kanban, and the principles of Kanban. This episode is sponsored by our generous backers on Patreon. Sign up today!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/agilechuckwagon)

In dieser Folge werde zur Abwechslung mal ich interviewt und zwar von Steffen Kessler, den wir schon bei der Franchise-Folge kennen gelernt haben. Wir haben uns auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Wien getroffen, als wir zur Franchise-Messe dort waren. Er hat mir ein paar gute Fragen über Productized Service gestellt und ich dachte, das könnte euch auch interessieren. Was ist ein "Productized Service"? Beim Productized Service wird eine Dienstleistung als Produkt verpackt und verkauft. Der Unterschied zur klassischen Dienstleistung besteht darin, dass man immer wieder exakt dieselbe Dienstleistung erbringt, es existieren feste Prozesse. Vergleichen wir es mal mit einer maßgeschneiderten Hose: Man weiß zwar, dass man beim Schneider ein Produkt erhält, das zwei Beine hat und oben einen Knopf. Das Produkt wird jedoch dem eigenen Körperbau angepasst. Ein Productized Service ist damit vergleichbar. Er ist keine Hose von der Stange beim H&M um die Ecke, denn er wird angepasst, aber eine Hose ist auch keine komplett neue Erfindung. Meine Videoproduktion ist teilweise ein Productized Service: Der Ablauf bei Drehs ist immer gleich, ich nehme immer das exakt gleiche Equipment mit. Allerdings stelle ich keinen zwei Kunden die gleichen Fragen oder schlage die gleichen Videos vor. Das wird dann doch noch eher individuell gemacht. Vom reinen Service zum Productized Service Am Anfang ist das Unikat: Man überlegt sich für jeden Kunden wieder ein neues Produkt, das perfekt zu ihm passt. Das wäre dann noch zu 100% Service. Richtung Productized Service starten kann man am besten, indem man erst einmal einen Plan mit den Arbeitsabläufen erstellt. Der Plan sollte dann auch ziemlich genau eingehalten werden, oder aber auch einen Ablauf für Abweichungen enthalten. Für meine Firma würde das bedeuten, dass der Plan auch von jemand anderem als mir selbst durchgeführt werden könnte; unabhängig von meiner Person. Bisher bin ich allerdings noch nicht soweit. Viele Schritte hängen noch an meiner Person, da ich noch nicht alle Abweichungen vom Plan definiert habe. Mein Ziel ist es, dass Mitarbeiter nach meiner Anleitung Videos produzieren können, die meine Ansprüche erfüllen. Wo es bei mir hängt Das Nadelöhr ist bei mir der Prozess der Strategie-Entwicklung. Da muss ich individuell auf meine Kunden eingehen und da spielt eine große Portion Erfahrung mit. Die Strategie-Entwicklung ist keine zweimal exakt identisch. Ich habe es bisher noch nicht geschafft, diesen Prozess als Ablauf nieder zu schreiben. Auch während dem Filmen braucht es etwas Erfahrung um meinem Kunden verständlich zu machen, was er sagen muss, damit ihn seine Kunden verstehen. Productized Service im Franchising Wenn ein Unternehmen ins Franchising gehen möchte, dann muss es ein Franchise-Handbuch erstellen. Dort werden alle Prozesse definiert und nieder geschrieben. Dies stellt eine Art Prozess-Transfer vom Franchise-Geber zum Franchise-Nehmer dar und stellt sicher, dass das Produkt überall die gleichen Standards erfüllt. Dem Franchising ist der Productized Service also schon innewohnend. In vielen anderen Bereichen allerdings hat das Definieren von Prozessen noch keinen Einzug gefunden. Der Maler und sein Productized Service Erklären wir doch mal anhand eines fiktiven Malers wie man sein Unternehmen zum Productized Service umbauen könnte. Der Maler könnte beispielsweise schon mal damit beginnen, seine Preise in Quadratmeter Fläche anzugeben. So weiß der Kunde genau, was auf ihn zukommt. Er hat das Gefühl, er kann sich für ein Produkt zu einem bestimmten Preis entscheiden. Das nächste wäre die Spezialisierung oder Fokussierung: Viele Maler bieten eben nicht nur Malerarbeiten an, sondern verputzen auch noch oder dämmen die Außenwand und so weiter. Für einen Productized Service ist es aber besser, sich auf eine Sache zu spezialisieren und diese zu perfektionieren. Dann kann man auch viel leichter skalieren. Man kann dem Kunden dann den besten Service zum besten Preis in einem Nischen-Bereich bieten. Grundpfeiler des Productized Service Wichtig für einen Productized Service ist, dass man ihn so aufbaut, dass man sich selbst daraus verabschieden kann. Ein Productized Service hängt nicht von einer Person ab. Außerdem ist die Organisation der Kommunikation enorm wichtig. Das ist auch eine Challenge für mich, dass die richtige Person im richtigen Moment das Richtige weiß. Dies ist besonders dann wichtig, wenn man skalieren möchte, was ja mein Ziel ist. Als einzelner kann man aber natürlich auch einen Productized Service anbieten. Wenn der jedoch dann auch funktioniert wird man schnell an den Punkt kommen, wo man andere mit ins Boot holen will. Ist das nicht normal? An irgendeinem Punkt hat Steffen sich gewundert, denn für ihn war es ganz normal, Prozesse zu etablieren. Das hängt jedoch damit zusammen, dass er aus dem Franchise-Business kommt. Dort ist das natürlich nicht zu vermeiden. Außerdem hat er auch Interesse daran, Prozesse zu automatisieren, da das ja auch intern Arbeit erleichtert. Er ist schon voll in dieser Denkweise drin und kann sich kaum vorstellen, dass es anders sein kann. In meinem Bereich jedoch ist es anders: In namhaften Agenturen habe ich gesehen, dass dort keinesfalls gute Prozesse etabliert sind. Von daher war die "Entdeckung" von Productized Service für mich revolutionär. Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass das auch in anderen Bereichen der Fall sein kann. Trello als Hilfsmittel Um Prozesse optimieren zu können, nutzt Steffen, und ich übrigens auch, Trello. Trello ist wie eine Pinnwand, es gibt Spalten und man kann zwischen den Spalten Karten hin und her schieben. Übrigens ist Trello eine SaaS (Software as a Service). Der Productized Service ist angelegt an SaaS, in Bereichen, die eben nichts mit Programmierung zu tun haben. Trello ist hilfreich, um Projekte zu organisieren, an denen mehr als eine Person arbeitet (aber auch für persönliche To-Do-Listen). Jeder kann sehen, an welchem Punkt sich das Projekt gerade befindet und kann, wenn er etwas erledigt hat, die entsprechende Karte entsprechend verschieben. So wissen es dann alle. Prozesse können so sehr gut organisiert und auch an andere Personen übergeben werden. Steffen und sein Team im Franchise-Portal nutzen übrigens das Prinzip des Personal Kanban. Informationen darüber findet ihr zum Beispiel im Podcast von Maik Pfingsten. Steffens Hebel-Tipp Das kam wie aus der Pistole geschossen: Trello! Sein Tipp ist, dass ihr euch ein Personal Kanban System in Trello bauen sollt. Es wird euch helfen, euren Tag besser zu organisieren, und dann solltet ihr automatisch auch Zeit sparen. Außerdem fühlt ihr euch besser, wenn ihr Karten in die "done" Spalte verschieben dürft :) Wie mein System aussieht, findet ihr hier: Personal Scrum Steffens Buchempfehlungen Das wäre zum Einen "Erfolgreich durch Spezialisierung" von Kerstin Friedrich, weiterhin "Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer" von Stefan Merath und außerdem was zum Nachdenken über sich selbst, die Bücher von John Strelecky. Webseiten, Bücher und Podcasts Trello: https://trello.com/home Podcast von Maik Pfingsten zum Personal Kanban: https://lifestyleentrepreneur.de/le005-personal-kanban-wie-ich-heute-effektiver-bin/ Buch "Erfolgreich durch Spezialisierung: https://www.amazon.de/Erfolgreich-durch-Spezialisierung-Kompetenzen-Kerngeschäfte/dp/3636014188 Buch "Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer": http://www.unternehmercoach.com/coach-unternehmer-erfolg-weg-zum-erfolgreichen-unternehmer-neue-dynamik.htm Bücher von John Strelecky: https://www.amazon.de/Bücher-John-Strelecky/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A186606%2Cp_27%3AJohn%20Strelecky

Derek Huether has been working on new blog post that outlines 3 things you need to do to establish better productivity practices. The blog post will be live in a few days on the LeadingAgile Field Notes site (https://www.leadingagile.com/blog/). In the meantime, check out this podcast where Dave Prior and Derek discuss the triangle of productivity, how to understand what enables you to get more done and the importance of learning to hack yourself for greater productivity. 00:09 Podcast Begins 00:23 Topic Introduction - Patterns on what makes people productive or kills their productivity 01:13 The patterns of success - system, ritual and habit 01:32 Where the data comes from 02:36 Getting clarity the process of productivity 03:10 An example: Scrum 04:14 Personal Kanban as an example 05:25 Holding yourself accountable vs. Making a commitment 06:37 Testing out different personal productivity systems 09:09 The myth of productivity guru’s and developing habits out of rituals 10:54 Learning to do X every day because of what happens when you don’t 11:23 Two systems Derek uses almost daily to increase his productivity 12:00 The importance of breaks and downtime to reset 13:07 If the information being shared requires too much time to convey the message, the message is lost 13:43 How many hours a day are you actually able to be productive 14:22 No one is productive for 8-9 hours a day without a break 15:05 Why you need to reset: “It takes more and more effort to get less and less out of me” 15:46 Planning for personal maintenance 17:15 You need a change of scenery to recharge 17:38 Going to Lowes “OH MY GOD THAT IS SO BORING!” 17:58 Focusing on a different problems to recharge 19:13 If I don’t see progress, my productivity is going to go down and down 19:25 Creating self maintenance tasks and putting them on the board so you don’t skip them 20:35 Is taking a break part of the process? 21:17 Habits can show you if you are being productive 21:36 Hacking yourself to become more productive 23:00 Am I really committed to doing what I am working on now? If not, why are you doing it? 24:04 Dealing with writer’s block 24:42 It’s not about getting the most done. It’s about becoming a student of your productivity 25:27 Having an approach to help you work through things like writer’s block 25:50 Managing procrastination - driven and optimistic vs. pessimistic and indifferent 26:45 What can you do to make yourself more driven and optimistic 26:57 A fifth quadrant - giving yourself permission to not be productive 27:54 Finding the checkpoint so you can take a break - It’s OK! A link to the blog post will be posted here as soon as the blog is live Here is a link to the twitter picture mentioned in the podcast Links from the Podcast: A link to the blog post will be posted here as soon as the blog is live Here is a link to the pictures mentioned in the podcast: The Triangle of Productivity https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhrTBcAPdM/ The 4 Quadrants of Productivity https://www.instagram.com/p/BNUVR07Avjw/ Reaching Derek: On the LeadingAgile website: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/derek-huether/ On his blog: http://www.derekhuether.com On Twitter: https://twitter.com/derekhuether Agile Baltimore Agile Baltimore and the Baltimore Lean Coffee Meetup can be found here: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Baltimore-Group/

An interview with Jim Benson, the creator of Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee. We delve into Personal Kanban, which is an approach to dealing with the overload of stuff you need to deal with. We dig into into its two simple rules, visualizing work and limiting work in progress. We then walk through Lean Coffee, which is a simple and effective way to run your meetings. In the end we discuss Jim’s lessons on collaboration from his years in working to improve it in organizations.

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.

Projektmanagement und das leidige Thema: Lastenhefte! Was sind Lastenhefte eigentlich? Warum ist das wichtig für Führungskräfte und worauf kommt es in der Praxis wirklich an? Darüber unterhalte ich mich mit dem Systemingenieur und TroubleShooter Maik Pfingsten.

Gearóid Crowley is a Lead Consultant at Readify. He's from Ireland, based in Sydney these days, and passionate about helping organisation build quality products with the power of automated release management. Today I gave Gearóid a call to talk to him about his first line of code, his many years in the industry and what he enjoys most about working at Readify. In Discussion: - My first Amstrad. 1992. Ireland. - First line of code. - Building a chess game in assembly. - Solving a problem is often about how it's setup. - First job in tech. - How did Readify appear on your radar? - Life and thinking of the team at Readify. - Changing landscape of cloud computing and the resulting rise of Devops, discipline and quality. - Busy Queues. Idle Queues. - Books. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr. Personal Kanban by Jim Benson. - Xmas cooking kanban board.

Als Führungskraft und Manager haben wir tagtäglich mit einer Flut von Aufgaben zu kämpfen. Um nichts zu vergessen nutzen die meisten von uns Aufgabenlisten. In dieser Episode erkläre ich Dir was meiner Meinung nach die Nachteile von Aufgabenlisten sind und biete Dir mit Personal Kanban ein Alternative an, die sich für mich bewährt hat.

Productivity Book Group [ http://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed Personal Kanban | Mapping Work, Navigating Life [ http://amzn.to/WltYRi ] by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Enjoy the discussion! The Amazon book description for Personal Kanban states: […]

A very special guest introduces episode 37, and you can see her on video at Kickstarter. On this episode Vic is joined by Curtis Gilbert, Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead) & Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) to discuss topics from volume II of the Agile Coffee Conversation Starters. We dove into: Personal Kanban in Daily Life Thomas Leonard's The Nine Environments of You Trello (online kanban tool) Can PMs be Good SMs? How does Agile Change People? Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies Power of the SM Our Professional Development books on audio / book summaries: Audible, Safari, Scribd, Blinkest What are these Agile Coffee decks? We've assembled the best and most-popular topics from our podcasts and local meetups, and we created two decks of casino-quality playing cards. These decks are helpful for groups wanting start their own lean coffee meetups, or for anyone with a desire to start conversations. Visit our kickstarter page before Sept 24 to become a backer, and stop by agilecoachingcards.com to see some nifty photos and find out more about these and other decks. Reach out to Vic (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter and use the hashtag #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

This week's Podcast features Jim Benson, founding partner of the Modus Institute.  Jim discusses how he was introduced to the Deming Philosophy, how his team applies it to Knowledge Work (work that can't be seen), and what he feels is the biggest fear in an organization. Though he was initially introduced accidently on an airplane, Jim shared how he was actively looking for a set of guiding principles around what would create a human oriented, self-aware way of managing work. As he hopes everyone finds out, the four points of the System of Profound Knowledge do that in a very elegant, concise and friendly way. At Modus Cooperendi, they apply the Deming Philosophy with three guiding principles: Respect for people, SOPK, and the One Point (summation of the 14 points). They take those principles and help companies build new Life Systems, so they can visualize their work for the first time leading to better communication, collaboration and transparency. Listen as Jim tells us why they feel "the unknown" is the biggest fear in an organization. And how building trust within teams can remove one of the largest barriers to your company. Hear how some companies they're working with are doing just that.

LeadingAgile's Derek Huether and Dave Prior discuss Personal Kanban, the ways in which they've each used it to manage the work they have to do, and what it has taught them about themselves and how they get things done professionally and personally.

At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne, Jim Benson of Personal Kanban fame takes some time to talk with Craig, Renee, Tony and (a very silent) Kim Ballestrin and along the way they talk about: early work implementing David J. Anderson’s Agile Management which resulted in Jim focussing on the person (Personal Kanban) and David focussing on … Continue reading →

Ich habe seit Mai 2013 meine Arbeit völlig neu organisiert. Am Ende der Episode werdet ihr sehen, wie Personal Kanban funktioniert und erfahren wie ihr es in eurem Leben einsetzen könnt. Aufbau der Episode: 1) Warum überhaupt Personal Kanban? 2) Wie setze ich Personal Kanban ein? 3) Was es mit gebracht? Was hat sich verändert?

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 264 The Software Process and Measurement Cast 264 features my interview with Alexei Zheglov.  We discussed lean, work-in-process limits and flow. A summary of Alexei's bio from LinkedIn . . . How does value flow through your knowledge-work organization? The reality for many knowledge-work organizations today is, not very well. Therefore, we need to design, evolve, discover and help better systems of work emerge. Alexei's present drive and ability to help guide people to those better ways go back to his programming since the 80s (professionally since the 90s), mastering many practices and discovering manyproblems and solutions. It was more than 10 years ago that I created my first test doubles and human-readable acceptance tests. He was in the engineering trenches of a lean startup long before there was such a term. Alexei doesn't "roll out" "methodologies." He draws from a large number of approaches - such as Kanban (and, by extension, many innovations rapidly created by the global Lean/Kanban community). A3 Thinking, Agile software engineering practices, and others - to discover solutions to problems and to help people learn and see why and how something we do is an improvement. Alexei has actively contributed to the Agile/Lean community in his part of the world over the last several years, emerged as an influencer at Canadian open-space Agile Coach Camps (2010-2013), organized and presented at many user group meetings, and spoke at larger forums such as Agile India 2012, Agile New England, AgileDC and three Canadian AgileTours: Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. He was one of the translators of the Stoos Communique in January 2012 and founded my region's Limited WIP Society chapter later that year to facilitate learning of the Kanban method and how Lean works in knowledge-work fields in general. His specialties include: Agile and Lean software development. How Lean works in knowledge-work fields. Agile technical practices. Kanban. Personal Kanban. Lean Startup. Systems thinking. Cynefin. Real Options Big concepts  . . . a big interview! The Software Process and Measurement Cast has a sponsor . . . As many you know I do at least one webinar for the IT Metrics and Productivtity Intstiute (ITMPI) every year. The ITMPI provides a great service to the IT profession. ITMPI's mission is to pull together the expertise and educational efforts of the world's leading IT thought leaders and to create a single online destination where IT practitioners and executives can meet all of their educational and professional development needs. THe ITMPI offers a premium membership that gives members unlimited free access to 400 PDU accredited webinar recordings, and waives the PDU processing fees on all live and recorded webinars.  The Software Process and Measurement Cast recieves a fee if you sign up using the URL in the show notes.   http://mbsy.co/fGdw  All revenue our sponsors goes for bandwidth, hosting and new cool equipment to create more and better content for you!  Support the SPaMCAST and learn from the ITMPI! THe Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network.  If it is tech it is on the Tech Podcast Network.  Check out the Software Process and Measurement and other great podcasts on the TPN!   TPN:  www.techpodcast.com Do you have a Facebook account?  If you do please visit and like the Software Process and Measurement Cast page on Facebook.  http://ow.ly/mWAgU  The Daily Process Thoughts is my project designed to deliver a quick daily idea, thought or simple smile to help you become a better change agent. Each day you will get piece of thought provoking text and a picture or hand drawn chart to illustrate the idea being presented. The goal is to deliver every day; rain or shine, in sickness or in health or for better or worse! Check it out at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  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, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE!  Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voicemail:  +1-206-888-6111 Website: www.spamcast.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley Facebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWVContact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast One more thing!  Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process and Measurement Cast on ITunes! It helps people find the cast.  Next: The Software Process and Measurement Cast 265 our essay on retrospectives.  If you are not doing retrospectives you are leaving productivity and satisfaction on the table.

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 […]

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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.

Roy van de Water, Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Derek Neighbors, and Gerry Kirk discuss: