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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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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