Mindmap-Book Summary-PersonalKanban

Mindmap-Book Summary-PersonalKanban

• About Personal Kanban
  • Date Read: April 30, 2016
  • Author: Jim Benson
  • ISBN: 978-0-578-07985-1
  • 232 pages
  • MyRating: 5 Stars
• CHAPTER 1-The Basics of Personal Kanban
  • The Basics of Personal Kanban
    • Your boss wants you to finish that report.
    • Your accountant wants you to file your taxes
    • Your friends want you to show up for tee time
    • Your garden wants you to prune the hydrangea
    • Your daughter wants you to attend her recital
    • Your father wants you to call your mother. It’s been two weeks you know
    • Your bathroom wants you to re-caulk the tub
    • Your spouse wants you to just be present.
  • Towards a More Personal Kanban 27 9
  • Rules for a System That Abhors Rules 8
  • Why Visualize Your Work: Navigate Safely 3
  • Why Limit Your WIP 3
  • Why Call it Personal Kanban 8
  • How to Use This Book
  • PKFlow Tips 2
    • 1. Personal Kanban is an information radiator for your work
    • 2. Existential overhead mounts when work is conceptual
    • 3. Visualization makes the conceptual tangible
    • 4. We can’t do more work than we can handle
    • 5. Limiting WIP promotes completion and clarity
    • 6. Flexible systems adapt to changes in context.
• CHAPTER 2-Building Your First Personal Kanban
  • Building Your First Personal Kanban
  • Step One: Get Your Stuff Ready 3
  • Step Two: Establish Your Value Stream 8
  • Step Three: Establish Your Backlog 8
  • Step Four: Establish Your WIP Limit 3
  • Step Five: Begin to Pull 2
  • Step Six: Reflect 2 2
  • Personal Kanban Power Boosters 3
  • What it All Means 9 8
  • PKFlow Tips 9
    • 1. Let your context be your guide—change your Personal Kanban as needed
    • 2. Be honest about your backlog.
    • 3. Your value stream may be adapted for specific projects.
    • 4. Visualizing the nature of your work is the key to seeing what is reallyhappening.
    • 6. Expect the unexpected
• CHAPTER 3-My Time Management is in League with the Freeway
  • My Time Management is in League with the Freeway 293
  • Flow Like Traffic 6
  • Setting WIP Limits 86
  • Living the Days of Our Lives 89 7
  • Clarity Calms Carl 8
  • To-do Lists: Spawns of the Devil 96
  • PKFlow Tips 5
    • 1. Manage work with flow and throughput not time and capacity 5
    • 2. Like traffic work doesn’t fit it flows 5
    • 3. Capacity is a spatial relationship throughput is a flow relationship 5
    • 4. WIP limits can change with context 5
    • 5. Thoughtful prioritization and completion beats rigorous up-front planning 5
    • 6. Understanding our options is liberating 5
• CHAPTER 4-Nature Flows
  • Nature Flows 5 3
  • Flow: Work’s Natural Movement 6 6
  • Cadence: Work’s Beat 9
  • Slack: Avoiding Too Many Notes 396
  • Pull Flow Cadence and Slack in Action 1
  • Busboy Wisdom: The Nature of Pull 6
  • PKFlow Tips 1 3
    • 1. Life is a balance of order and chaos 1

      2. Patterns and contexts are often emergent. Don’t lock yourself into plansbefore you have enough information 1

      3. Our actions today impact our choices tomorrow 1

      4. Pull flow and cadence give clarity to how we work and which optionsare appropriate to select 1

      5. Push is a blind act. Pull is informed 1

      6. Pulling is optimal being pushed is inevitable. Semper Gumby. Alwaysflexible 1

• CHAPTER 5-Components of a Quality Life
  • Components of a Quality Life 1 2
  • Metacognition: A Cure for the Common Wisdom 7 3
  • Productivity Efficiency and Effectiveness 1
  • Defining a Good Investment 3 351
  • Reality Check 5 8
  • PKFlow Tips 6 5
    • 1. Visualization dispels fear 7 –
    • 2. Clarity lets us improve not only our decisions but our decision-makingprocesses 7 –
    • 3. Productivity without effectiveness is waste 7 –
    • 4. Notable bursts of effectiveness are the heart of a peak experience 7 –
    • 5. Repeatable peak experiences enable kaizen 7 –
    • 6. Understanding our work and how we prioritize allows us to find balancebetween push and pull 7 –
• CHAPTER 6-Finding Our Priorities
  • Finding Our Priorities 7 2
  • Structure Clarity and Our Ability to Prioritize 1 1
  • Smaller Faster Better: 1 3
    • Controlling Task Size and Limiting WIP 1 3
  • Prioritization in Theory and Practice 5 8
  • Urgency & Importance 1 7
  • Live Your Own Life 3 3
  • Expert: Metrics in Personal Kanban 7 9
  • PKFlow Tips 8 5
    • 1. Expertise is no substitute for observation and measurement
    • 2. Clarity drives prioritization completion and effectiveness
    • 3. Metrics don’t have to be difficult
    • 4. Visual controls remove guesswork
    • 5. Real-time flexiblity beats rigid up-front planning
    • 6. Happiness may be the best measure of success
• CHAPTER 7-Strive for Improvement
  • Strive for Improvement 673
  • Clarity Conquers All 1 6
  • Course Corrections: 1 6
    • The Reality of Reprioritization 1 6
  • The Bedrock of Introspection 1 8
  • Retrospectives 2 893
  • Solving Problems at Their Source 6 1
  • PKFlow Tips 5 1
    • 1. Heroes are often misapplied. 5 1
    • 2. Clarity is the cornerstone of growth 5 1
    • 3. Growth requires retrospection and introspection. 5 1
    • 4. Course corrections are necessary in any endeavor 5 1
    • 5. Retrospectives give us the time to balance long and short term needs 5 1
    • 6. Solve problems at their source don’t be fooled by the obvious answer 5 1
• ENDGAME
  • Endgame 1
  • APPENDIX A 5
  • Personal Kanban Design Patterns 4
  • Jessica’s Story: Future in Progress and 1 4
    • Multiple Value Streams 1 4
  • Sequestering Approach: 6
    • Dealing with Repetitive Tasks 6
  • Emergency Response Approach: 2
    • Taming Unexpected Workloads 2
  • Time Capsule Approach 2
  • Balanced Throughput Approach 2 6
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