personal kanban

MPD, portfolio management

Postpone Work With a Parking Lot

If you are wondering, “What do I do with the work I said no to?” here’s the answer. Use a parking lot. This is the image from Manage Your Project Portfolio. I recommend just four columns: the project name, the date you put the project on the list, any notes about value, and any other […]

MPD, project management

Why I Use a Paper Kanban Board

My most recent post about how to Visualize Your Work So You Can Say No showing a couple of different kanbans was quite popular. Several people ask me how I use my personal kanban. I use paper. Here’s why I don’t use a tool: I am too likely to put too much into a tool.

MPD, portfolio management

Visualize Your Work So You Can Say No

Most people I know—even the people supposedly using agile approaches—have too much work to do. You have project work. In addition, you have support work, formal for customer support or sales, and informal for your colleagues. Let’s not forget the reports to write or file, time cards to fill out, or other periodic events. You

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Ann: Manage Your Job Search Webinar

I’m doing a webinar on July 2 about finding a job: Manage Your Job Search Webinar . Here’s the description: Searching for a job is a big, complex, and scary prospect. You don’t have control over the end date, so it’s an emergent project. How do you regain control? By using personal kanban inside one

HTP, job search trap

Job Search Trap: Too Much to Do

Today’s job search trap is something we can all identify with: biting off a big chunk of work and not getting it to done fast enough. I suspect we have all been there and done that! How do you avoid this particular trap? I like to assess each of my tasks on my board and

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Three Secrets for a Successful Job Search

Three Secrets for a Successful Job Search Are you looking for a job? If you are, I bet you’ve received advice from many people–whether or not you wanted it. Here are my three secret ingredients for a successful search: Secret #1: Create a system that works for you. I happen to like personal kanban inside

MPD, podcast

Podcast About Personal Kanban with Dave Prior

A few weeks ago, Dave Prior interviewed me for Projects at Work. He posted that interview as a podcast. Yes, registration is required. We spoke about Personal Kanban, my process for getting my work to done, how I carve out time for intellectual work, how I protect that time, how I iterate on my work,

Agile Job Search, HTP

Manage Your Job Search Slides Posted

I gave my first public talk about Manage Your Job Search last week. I posted the slides and audio on slideshare.net. I cannot seem to unsync the audio from the slides. I have tried, but slideshare.net seems to think I speak at a standard pace with each slide. Hah! No, I do not. So, the

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