Don Kim - I Think, Therefore I Plan
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You can find Don’s book here: http://amzn.to/2n7VEHu You can find Don’s blog post about certifications here: http://bit.ly/2okDUZA
Show Notes:00:07 Interview Start 00:30 What is a Human APEE 03:38 What is an Artisan approach to Project Management 05:15 Don’s Philosophy of Project Management 07:22 Trying to slow down and do less 08:21 Don explains his way of approaching project work and the reason for the book 10:56 How has the traditional vs. Agile debate changed over the past few years 12:53 Seeing the value in every project you work on - regardless of how you got it 16:15 The downside of certifications 17:29 The positive aspects of certifications 18:03 There is more to project management training than just PMP certification 19:48 Making the case for the value certifications can provide and how it can be misunderstood 23:22 Does it make sense for people to want to have a way of gauging their professional achievement? 23:55 What Don expected from PMP certification and how he went deep with the Kerzner to get the most learning out of it (instead of just passing the test) 26:41 Is it the certification that is an issue, or the way people interpret it as an end point rather than a beginning 27:50 An overview of the approach Don’s book takes towards the art of Project Management 30:56 Where you can find Don’s book and how you can reach him with follow up questions 31:54 Podcast Ends You can reach Don Kim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donkim/ Feedback/Comments: [email protected] |
A few weeks ago Don Kim put up a blog post challenging the value of certifications. I reached out to Don in hopes of doing an interview about it and found out he’s also written a new book “I think Therefore I Plan”. In this interview we discuss the pros and cons of different certifications, taking an artisan approach to managing projects as well as Don’s new book.
Interview with Don Kim on his Personal Kanban Practice
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Categories: Don Kim, kanban, overcommitment, personal kanban, personal productivity, productivity, Scrum, value, waste
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A link to the interview and notes on key points in the podcast are below. If you are interested in learning more about Don you can find him through his blog [email protected] (http://www.projectation.com/), or through his work on Projects At Work (http://www.projectsatwork.com/profile/donkim/) and ProjectManagement.com (http://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/donkim). You can find the interview here: http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/279293.cfm The interview lasts for about 30 minutes. If you’d like to skip ahead to specific points, here are some of the key moments in the interview: 0:00 - Don explains his background and the focus of his writing for [email protected], ProjectManagement.com and Projects at Work. 1:55 - Don's thoughts on the volume of work PMs are facing today and how it impacts their ability to get things done. 4:45 Don explains how his use of personal productivity tools has evolved and how it resulted in him reaching a point where he was spending more time creating lists of things to do than actually getting anything on those lists done. 7:30 - Don and I discuss the fact that limiting the work in progress doesn't actually alleviate the larger backlog of things that need to be done. We also talk about the psychological impact of maintaining a list of things that do not get done. 10:28 - Don explains how he uses Personal Kanban to limit his ability to do work and how it helps him stay focused on only the most critical things. 11:20 - Don's shares his thoughts on tools for Personal Kanban and value long term planning. 13:20 - Don explains how he prioritizes his work based on goals for his goals for relationships. 15:29 - Don maintains a separation between work life and personal life. This helps help him stay focused on his goals for his personal life. 16:23 - Don's thoughts on the "reboot" of Kanban. 19:48 – Don explains how the the "reboot" is impacting the use of Personal Kanban. 21:10 - Don explains how he responds to requests from people who would rather stick with a Gantt chart and traditional planning instead of moving towards a more transparent Agile approach. 25:05 - Don's advice for people who are struggling with managing their own personal project management. 28:57 – Where you can learn more about Don and the work he is doing. |
Don Kim is a project leader who with over 15 years of experience in program and project management. His work covers a wide range of industries, but his primary focus is in IT. Don is also an avid blogger who has posted a number of articles over the past few months about incorporating techniques from Scrum and Kanban into the management of his work at a personal level. When I learned he was using PK to manage his own work I asked Don if he would allow me to interview him to hear more about how his has been using Personal Kanban.
