Based on Personal Kanban by Jim Benson, T Barry

Hrishikesh Karekar

© Hrishikesh Karekar 2013

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Send weekly report

Fill the travel expenses

I need it today

Take wife for a movie

Son’s football match next week

Pay credit card bill

Send task force meeting MOM

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We play many roles, but person is same

Managing priorities is not easyPhoto courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluefade/4229364807/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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2 more hours per day. What would you do?

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getting organized is not new

Why Personal Kanban?

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create personal value – manage tasks, work and goals better

We have had enough of productivity

Lets create value

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

~ “If” by Rudyard Kipling

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TWO RULES

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you need to run with

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Rule # 1 : Visualize Work

Rule # 2 : Limit WIP

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When we promise work, we agree to juggle it

When we start work, we start juggling

Each new ball adds overhead exponentially

Even if you stop working on it, your brain keeps juggling it.

EXISTENTIAL OVERHEADthe cost in distraction and stress of uncompleted tasks.

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Capacity is a horrible measure of throughput

A freeway can operate from 0 to 100 percent capacity. But when a freeway’s capacity gets over about 65%, it starts to slow down. When it reaches 100% capacity – it stops

Our brains are not much different

So-called “idle” time is vital for a healthy brain – and it is a misnomer.

Time when you aren’t forcing your brain to pump something out is when it’s doing background processing on things you “aren’t” doing

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Stop Starting, Start Finishinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/toolstop/4546017269/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Do less at a time, do things more efficiently, and end up doing more overall by doing less right now.

Establish your value

stream

Establish your

backlog

Establish your WIP

Limit

Begin to Pull

Prioritize, Refine, Reduce

Building your first Personal Kanban

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simple to-do

time driven

event driven

Templates – www.kanbantool.com

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and many more….

Thank you

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