the evils of multi-tasking and how personal kanban can help you
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We know for a fact that multi-tasking slows us down both physically and mentally. Agile, Lean, Scrum and Kanban limit work in progress (WIP) on a team and organisational level but what about the personal space? What practices can we use as individuals to avoid multi-tasking and achieve flow? This session will explain the research on and theory behind why multi-tasking is bad at every level and through telling the story of Snapper, New Zealand’s primary contactless payments platform, I will show how an entire organisation organically adapted Agile practices to extend from the organisational and team level to the personal and individual space and how personal Kanban in turn has influenced our organisation-wide Agile adoption. I will demonstrate how personal Kanban works and how my colleagues and I are using it. I will show the personal Kanban boards that have popped up everywhere around the office and how everyone at Snapper and the organisation as a whole have benefitted from their use. Come along and learn how personal Kanban can help you! This session has been part of Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas and Agile Australia 2013 and have been very well received.TRANSCRIPT
Sandy Mamoli
@smamol [email protected] www.nomad8.com
The evils of multi-tasking and how personal Kanban can help you
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Multi-tasking Exercise - part 1
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Multi-tasking Exercise - part 2
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I realised I had a problem
Organisational multi-tasking
“ ... to maximise utilisation and deliver as many projects as possible, people are on between 3 to 5 projects at the time ...”
Head of Project Management Office (PMO)
Buzz around the teams
Rules of the game
A 10-second Kanban recap
‣ Visualise your workflow - so you know what you’re doing
‣ Limit work in progress - so you stop multi-tasking
Expedite?
Process and flow
Achievement not activity
Only the owner can add tasks
How big should tasks be?
Timeboxing
Effect on people
“No one ever shouts at a wall” Jim Benson
Continuous improvement
Better work-life balance
Why a physical board?
You can’t carry it around
Tactile connection
Spreading like a rash
Making boards
Effects on the organisation
Portfolio Kanban
Did I just make this up?
h:p://www.personalkanban.com
Multi-tasking slows us down
Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking, Gerald Weinberg, 1992
So what next?
www.kanbanfor1.com
@kanbanfor1
facebook.com/kanbanfor1
@smamol
@smamol [email protected] www.nomad8.com
If you’re interested in seeing this presentation live feel free to get in touch. I live in Wellington, New Zealand.