Post on 12-Jul-2015
Taking Charge Running Your Business
Barb Cagley
Todays Plan
Overview of Personal Kanban
Setting Goals
Making Decisions
Multitasking
Building Your Kanban
What is Personal Kanban
Backlog Doing Done
Only Two Rules
Visualize your work
Limit your work-in-progress
Kanban Board
Setting Goals
Yearly
Quarterly
Monthly
Weekly
Kanban Backlog
Decide
whether or
not to act
Between the narrowing
phase and the decision
phase, attention is paid
to a particular item
Model of Attention ProcessesAwareness Attention Action
Items come
into awareness
NARROWING
PHASE
DECISION
PHASE
Source: The Attention Economy - Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck
Multitasking Exercise
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10
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stop
Building Your Kanban
Board
Backlog
Post-its
with all
the tasks
you want
to do
Work-in-
Progress
Doing (3)
Completed
Done
FLOW
VALUE STREAM
Value Stream
Backlog Design DoneReviewProduction
MY VALUE STREAM
Backlog
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Weekend
projects
When I get the
money
Personal
Clients
Quick tasks
Big hunk of time
Promises to
others
Errands
CategorizeYour
Backlog
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Limiting Your Work-in-Progress
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Done
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The Plan
Set yearly goals – break down goals to
weekly task for the backlog
Remember Awareness Attention Action
when making decisions
Personal Kanban’s two rules
Visualize your work
Limit your work-in-progress
Follow the Blog
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