J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
When: November 17, 2009 Where: Twitter Hashtag: #pkflow Save the date because Modus Cooperandi is hosting a "Tweet-a-ban." Whether you're a Personal Kanban practitioner or just have an interest in improving your productivity, join in on the asynchronous, 24 hour...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Last week I had the good fortune to conduct a one-day seminar on Enterprise 2.0 for the Finance Industry in Zurich. I attended Somesso 09 as an instructor with Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 University. Somesso is an Enterprise 2.0 /...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Personal Kanban 101 View more presentations from Jim Benson. Modus Cooperandi is pleased to announce the release of its second Personal Kanban InfoPak. In Personal Kanban 101: Achieving Focus & Clarity with Your First Personal Kanban we discuss the essentials...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Personal Kanban at the World Bank - Small Team Rapid Development View more documents from ourfounder. This is the first in a series of Modus Cooperandi's Info Paks. They are downloadable, and work like a narrative whitepaper. Think of them...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I’ve managed a lot of projects. I tried to count them – I can’t. As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve embraced a succession of methodologies that cumulatively represent a rather predictable evolution away from zero sum game management towards...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
As software as a service becomes mainstreamed, I’ve been watching how startups monetize their applications. The straight subscription model is the default. However, the recurring costs of a subscription model seem to annoy people as time goes on. If you...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! What is the curtain? The enterprise is the curtain. In concurrent posts, SocialText’s Michael Idinopulos discusses killing pilot projects and the true nature of Enterprise 2.0. He explains: Enterprise social software...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
When I began to write a succession of posts on personal kanban back in July, I thought a few people might benefit from the idea. I never expected that the series would attract tens of thousands of viewers to my...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Integration is Enterprise 2.0. This week my friend and colleague Dion Hinchcliffe posted an article on ZD Net describing 14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail. In it he paints a picture of valiant workers surreptitiously cyber-skulking on dank distributed...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. - Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature Okay, so we’ve gone through several ways kanban can...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
A wiki is a website anyone can edit. A kanban is a workflow anyone can edit. A wiki entry is always able to be improved upon. A kanban card is always able to be refined. In wikis, there is a...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
We’ve started a Facebook group for Personal Kanban, a dedicated web site is on the way, and a book is in development. I’m still tweeting about personal kanban through my personal twitter. If you want to read the existing personal...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
It has been fascinating to watch the personal kanban meme spread through use and not through pontification. When people see a personal kanban in action, it just makes sense to them. Parents start with their own kanban and soon their...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
In both Agile and Lean management there are points called "retrospectives," regular and ritualized moments where a team stops to reflect. Checking processes for only a few minutes lets you re-orient the course of your work. These retrospectives allow a...
J. LeRoy's Evolving Web (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Sometimes your relationship to work is initiative based, other times it is reactive. This is simply the nature of work. It is normal, and nothing - not personal kanban, not GTD - is going to change that. In the game...
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