Personal Kanban (lightning talk)

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Personal Kanban escape the tyranny of todo lists Ash Moran PatchSpace Ltd @patchspace

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These are the slides to a lightning talk on I gave at the PHPNW meetup on 6 Aug 2013. It's an incomplete, slightly skewed look at how I apply Personal Kanban myself. - Ash

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Personal Kanbanescape the tyranny of todo lists

Ash MoranPatchSpace Ltd

@patchspace

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Personal Kanban

WAT

Why

How

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WAT

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The best way to redecorate your house

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Metaphor of flow

Oh noes! Out of turnips. Need to buy

Visit turnips.com Shopping for

Submit card details Order placed

Receive dispatch email In transit

Yay turnips arrive! Collected

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Visualisation of activity

To-dolist

kanbanboard

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Control system

PROBLEMDETECTED!

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WHY

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Pull is less stressful than push

feeling of flow / pull

feeling of scheduling / push

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Physics

ideal hidden work

ideal gas

expands to fill available space

expands to fill your entire soul

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You can’t manage what you can’t see

has not yet hit tree

has not yet seen tree

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HOW

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Understand your flow

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Make it big and obvious

TV for scale

ideas (options!)

commitments

this weekis busy

only 3 things on

waiting on bloody

accountant

finished nothing

this week!

PHPNW!

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Improve

pause

reflect,review

do less

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Learn more

Personal Kanban by

Jim Benson - @ourfounder

Tonianne DeMaria Barry - @sprezzatura