Improving decision making through visualisation

1. Personal Kanban
Improved decision making through visualisation
by Andrew Rusling, 2021

2. Uncle Stripe
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3. Personal Kanban
Achieve more
Avoid feeling
overwhelmed
Prioritise
Focus
Visualise workload

4. what
1: Visualise your work
Elegant and simple
DoingTo do Done

5. what
1: Visualise your work
2: Limit your doing items
Elegant and simple
DoingTo do Done

6. Create your board
Print Hand drawOR

7. 10 minute activity
Populate Backlog & In Progress
1 work item per post-it
Outcome focused
1. Visual your work

8. How much work do you have in progress? WIP
Review work load

9. Are your work items?
•Outcome oriented
•Valuable
•Small
•Dependency free
Review work load

10. Tactics???
* Outcome oriented
* Prioritise right most
* Remover blockers
2. Limit your doing items
STOP STARTING,
START FINISHING

11. 5 minute activity
Find one action
Some options to consider:
* Rewrite/split work into Outcome focused work items
* Prioritise right most
* Take action to remover a blocker
One action to limit WIP

12. Call to action
For at least a fortnight
Update it daily
Review the board before:
• Starting a work item
• Answering “When will X be done?”
• Accepting a new work item
Challenge to you all

13. Andrew Rusling
Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrusling
Read blog: www.journey-to-better.com
Questions: andrewrusling@hotmail.com
Questions and Discussion

14. References and further reading
• Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life
• ISBN-13 : 978-1453802267, ISBN-10 : 1453802266
• https://www.personalkanban.com/
• Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2018/07/19/how-
to-use-kanban-to-become-insanely-productive-a-short-guide
• “Stop Starting, Start Finishing” poster: buff.ly/1Q1e97J