A while ago, I wrote a blog post in Norwegian about how to improve your personal productivity, by combining Personal Kanban and Pomodoro. This blog post was recently published as an article, in English, by ProgramUtvikling in their magazine – The Developer (No 1, 2012). Read the full article: Take a look, and let me know what you think! Page 1:Continue reading “How to boost your personal productivity? (English version)”
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Exploring WIP limits
A few months back I was involved in a highly developer centric project (very unlike my current project). Non-developers were basically only involved and available upon request, so most of the time the team was not very cross-functional. The team was using Scrum at the time, but the flow obviously had a few glitches andContinue reading “Exploring WIP limits”
How to boost your personal productivity?
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?”
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”
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”
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