I published a new blog post on the company blog; “How to boost your personal productivity?”. It describes a combination of Personal Kanban and Pomodoro, and how this works well for me. It’s written in Norwegian, and you can read it in full-length here:https://blogg.bekk.no/hvordan-booste-din-personlige-produktivitet-e7c6a2076c19 For my English-speaking readers, I recommend reading the article that inspired me to combine these techniques:http://paulklipp.com/images/PersonalProductivity.pdfContinue reading “How to boost your personal productivity?”
Author Archives: Jørn Hunskaar
Customizing your Kanban board
Lately, I have seen several blog posts and twitter chats emphasizing the importance of customizing your Kanban board. This applies everywhere, no matter if you use a straightforward linear Kanban board, networked Kanban or even your own personal Kanban – you need visualize the flow so that it fits the way you work. This is quite obvious. After all, it’s one ofContinue reading “Customizing your Kanban board”
Kanban in a non-linear flow
A Kanban board is supposed to represent the current process, the way it is right now. Representing the way we work on a simple, linear, Kanban board, is not always easy. In fact, it’s not always possible. Sometimes, the way we work is more complex than that. Jurgen Appelo described how to deal with more complex systems in hisContinue reading “Kanban in a non-linear flow”
Using Kanban in retrospectives
I remember reading about the Lean Coffee movement. Inspired by their totally open meeting format, I figured this could be an excellent alternative for our retrospectives. Lean Coffee meetings use Kanban to structure their meetings, they democratize their meetings to learn and discover things about what they don’t know – as well as exploring further what they already know.Continue reading “Using Kanban in retrospectives”
Kanban for portfolio management
Yesterday, I published a blog post about using Kanban for portfolio management on my company’s blog.http://open.bekk.no/kanban-pa-portefoljeniva/ It’s in Norwegian, so here’s a brief summary for my English speaking audience. I work closely with my customer’s project department, and I believe they could benefit from using Kanban for project portfolio management. Here’s an example of aContinue reading “Kanban for portfolio management”
Estimating software projects
My Twitter stream flooded with estimation related topics yesterday. We’re currently starting up a new project, so the timing was perfect and the topic highly relevant. Here are some recommended blog posts from yesterday on the topic: Estimation is at the root of most software project failuresIn this blog post Rob Bowley explains why we’ll never beContinue reading “Estimating software projects”
Kanban and Scrum after 500 tweets
I joined Twitter June 22, 2010, so, needless to say, I was not an early adaptor. Nevertheless, I just passed 500 tweets, and most of my tweets are somehow related to agile development, so did I come across something useful? The answer is yes, and I believe it’s an appropriate time to reflect – focusing on Kanban and Scrum this time. During thisContinue reading “Kanban and Scrum after 500 tweets”
Visualizing project policies in Kanban
When David Anderson visited us last month, he mentioned that we must make sure project policies are explicit by writing them down. Recently, I had a some sort of epiphany that some of these policies could be visualized as well – directly up on the wall. I prefer a whiteboard and post-its for our Kanban wall,Continue reading “Visualizing project policies in Kanban”
Who’s your safety valve?
I love what I’m doing, I can actually be pretty passionate about things, and if I really believe in something my first instinct would be to let others know how this can make their lives, jobs, projects – you name it – better. But if you ask people I have worked with over the years, IContinue reading “Who’s your safety valve?”
Improve team performance – seek inspiration elsewhere
As a teacher, my wife had to step in to avoid a conflict among sixth graders at school. She told me that she would let her students come up with different solutions on how to solve this conflict the following day. I mentioned briefly that she, in this particular case, could use a retrospective techniqueContinue reading “Improve team performance – seek inspiration elsewhere”
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