Personal Kanban - On the Personal Kanban Couch with Scott and Ray
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| From time to time, we all get stuck.
And I am equally fortunate to know Scott Bellware and Ray Lewallen. I reached out to Scott and Ray with the intent of getting their take on what was happening with my Personal Kanban experiment. I also wanted to get their thoughts on my questions about interpreting value and see how they felt about my complete inability to employ 5S in my workspace. Both Scott and Ray agreed to allow me to record the call so that I could use it as a podcast of sorts. This is not a typical interview, but more of a conversation/debate. It is broken into two parts in order to make it easier to download and I’ve listed key points in the conversation below, along with the times during the recording when they occur. Part 1: http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/279394.cfm 1:46 - Is Personal Kanban even useful to begin with? 4:20 - Why Scott doesn't use Kanban anymore 5:30 – The spread of Kanban 6:50 - Ray advocates for useful tools over following a specific methodology 8:30 – How Value and Prioritization build momentum 10:47 - Why momentum is so important 12:30 - Measuring value 12:45 - Writing everything down: wasteful, or not? 16:30 - Why Scott and Ray think I should throw everything away 18:30 - Making mindful decisions about your Personal Kanban practices
Part 2: http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/279395.cfm 0:00 - The importance of WIP and the cognitive burden of the backlog 2:25 - Avoiding "rank, negligent ignorance" when tracking your work 3:17 – The resurgence of things that are important enough to survive 3:48 – Maintenance of information inventory 6:07 – The importance of customizing your own solution 8:00 - Dealing with interrupters 11:40 – Knowing which waste to eliminate 14:20 - You can't have kaizen, you have to be kaizen 15:20 - The value of 5S 18:10 - The importance of a soluble workspace 22:00 – Tracking recurring tasks 23:51 - practice mode vs. practical mode 25:00 - Where to learn more about Scott and Ray 26:22 - Scott's last request
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In the middle of this project I got stuck with Personal Kanban and was not sure how to move forward. I am very fortunate to know people like 
These guys are usually my first call when I get stuck with things that are related to Agile. They are both very smart, and they both have a lot of experience. But the main thing for me is that they both see the world, and the work, in a way that is completely different from how I see it. More often than not, our conversations end up with me gaining a perspective I would probably not have found on my own.
