Aging Work in Progress: Are Tasks Staying in Your Flow too Long?
Limiting work in progres is a core principle of Kanban known as WIP limits. WIP limits allows teams to focus on current tasks in order to finish them faster. While limiting what team members work on, we must also be mindful of how long a task is in progress.
How to Deal with Lack of Focus
“Where did my time go?” This was me when I sat down to finish writing a blog article but ended up working on something else. This was also me when I realized I’d been mindlessly watching YouTube videos when I had planned to do actual work. My lack of
5 Best Time Management Systems to Increase Productivity
One of the things that separate successful people from the rest is how they value time. To reach your goals and be successful, you need to know how to take control of your time. Successful people use a time management system to keep their productivity in check. If you’re
Definition of Done on the Kanban Board
So you have your Kanban board ready. You have separate columns for each process step. Broke down all tasks into smaller ones. Then placed tasks and ideas that are waiting their turn in the backlog. And distributed the ones that are active across corresponding columns. You even set reasonable
Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work – And How Kanban Can Help
Multitasking is defined as the performance of multiple tasks at one time. Experts agree that, aside from a couple of exceptions (like walking while chewing gum), multitasking isn’t really possible. Research has shown that we don’t actually do things simultaneously, we just switch back and forth so rapidly we
