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On occasion as professionals we observe what seems to be irrational behavior, something that seems to defy logic. After years of seeing this “irrational” behavior in managers, co-workers and consultants I realized it is usually not irrational, just hard to comprehend. Most decisions people make involve a complex array …
Today the vast majority of people think Kanban looks like that picture on top, just some rows and columns of an unusual looking to-do list. And they would be mostly wrong, that’s literally the tip of the iceberg. Kanban, unlike Scrum deals with systems, large or small. But it thrives in large systems where many teams …
“Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Wise words that reminds us of the immense value that courage has for …
Any product or service has a natural audience, a group of people they serve. This part of this infographic shows clearly who Twitter serves. The larger diagram shows the same for the rest of Social Media. The reason I show this graphic is to remind you of the key question for any business, or even career choice. Who …
I would like to share three brilliant quotes by Andy, he is one of the best developers in the world, and was part of the original Mac team: “First and foremost, you are your own customer: You build stuff that you love yourself. What Woz did with the Apple II was he just filled it up with so much love — love because it …
One key concept to grasp in any form of goal setting, project management, or actual effort in life is that we should strive to never do more than needed, but have a goal of simple elegance. We must realize that More is Less. Perhaps one of the best ways to illustrate this principle, it to quote Seth Godin with some …
Less noise, less “information”, leads to less stress and that equals more peace. Image Credits: here. Which is actually one of the main principles of Kanban: Limit Work in Progress. It also relates to something I call Holistic Kanban or HKanban you can learn more about it here: </2010/12/23/hkanban/>
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GREAT MEN Like so many Project Managers and busy professionals I too have discovered that is not just enough to manage other people, or the work at hand, we have to manage our efforts in and out of the office, and daily life can be the biggest challenge of all.
“In business and in life: the lighter we are the higher we get.” ~ Miguel Gómez Arbocco, a good friend. Lean is a whole way of thinking that fundamentally tells us: keep the most valuable, discard the rest. Because the rest is weight, is useless inventory, that drags you down, and makes everything harder. When you go …
Get the Best Tools – Why most pros should consider the new Macbook Air? If there is a principle in project management, and Getting Things Done that I have learned is that we should use the best tools possible for the job. For over 7 years the best tool for me in the area of computers has been an Apple laptop, and …
