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“Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours play, make just and healthy day.” – King Alfred the Great One of the most important lessons at Microsoft was learning the value of a 40 hour work week. I’ve been on time, on budget for 10 years on projects ranging from grass-roots or “best efforts” to …
“When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.” — Henry David Thoreau Learn the 7 Habits of Highly Motivated People and you can continuously breathe new life into everything you do. I’ve seen too many people struggling with their motivation, or lose their mojo and wonder how to find …
To Do, Doing, Done is my favorite way to segment a Kanban. It’s where I start. It’s simple and intuitive. Another benefit is that it’s easy to glance at three segments. I’m a fan of “glance and go” vs. “stop and stare.” In the Kanban above, the “To Do” segment has a set of work …
I’ve had a unique privilege of leading high-performance distributed teams for more than ten years. I was lucky to be on a team in an organization whose driving philosophy was “leverage the best talent in the world, from around the world.” By opening up the opportunity to distributed teams early on, we got a lot …
“Kanban is not a to-do list, it’s a visual tool that helps you focus on what’s important and limit work in progress.” — Marina Lotaif I’ve been using personal Kanbans for several years, thanks to early guidance from Corey Ladas. In fact, the first time I used a personal Kanban was back in 2004 to …
