Turning ideas into action. MindManager: El Corazón de mi Herramienta GTD. Lo puedes leer en aprox. 2:18 minutos A raíz de la última entrada sobre 12 características recomendadas para tu sistema GTD, varios lectores de este blog me preguntaron que cuál es la herramienta que uso, a lo que respondí que escribiría una serie de entradas explicándola en detalle. Pues bien, esta es la primera de una serie de entradas en las que voy a explicar tanto los distintos elementos que componen mi herramienta como el funcionamiento integrado de los mismos. El “corazón” de la herramienta es el software para mapas mentales MindManager [para Windows]. Comencé a usar esta aplicación cuando iba por la versión 3 (ahora va por la 9). En aquella época la utilizaba para tomar notas en reuniones, hacer tormentas de ideas y planificar proyectos.
MindManager es un software comercial de muy alta calidad pero con un precio excesivo que, en mi opinión, no se justifica si lo comparamos con otras aplicaciones similares que ofrecen versiones gratuitas. Decisiones | Desarrollo de Producto LEAN. Queue utilization is a leading indicator. I talk a lot about how to apply Lean ideas to software development.
Perhaps I sometimes take it for granted that we understand why we should apply them. Mary Poppendieck has already written quite a bit on that rationale, and I try not to rehash things I think she’s already covered adequately. I do think there are a few characteristic scenarios where Lean principles most clearly apply to software development: Any kind of live network service, whether customer-facing (Google.com, Amazon.com) or machine-facing (Bigtable, SimpleDB)Any kind of sustaining engineering process: bug fixing, security patching, incremental enhancementEvolutionary product design (which is to say, effective product design) That said, there is a very pragmatic reason to adopt a Lean workflow strategy, regardless of what sort of product you are building: Lean scheduling provides crystal clear leading indicators of process health.
I am speaking of kanban limits and andon lights. Work in process is a leading indicator. S Blog » kanban. Why I prefer ToDo over Trello for agile teams March 13, 2014Max Wenzin The Gist ToDo has a flow. It knows about cycle times and about being DONE. Trello does not.ToDo has Planning Poker Estimates. Trello does not have any estimates.ToDo has automatic burn up charts. Swimlanes on a ToDo board Already convinced? Read more Det är inte bara din ScrumMaster som behöver förstå vad “agile” är!
October 28, 2013Mikael Brodd Återigen har ni diskussionen om “working software over comprehensive documentation” verkligen betyder att man inte behöver dokumentera någonting alls. Nytt matigt kapitel till Riv pyramiderna igen October 11, 2013Peter Antman På ett bräde blev boken Riv pyramiderna igen dubbelt så tjock (222 sidor) med det nya kapitlet “En organisation utan huvud – en agil odyssé“. Köp den nu, den blir aldrig billigare Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps) October 11, 2013Henrik Kniberg Technical Debt is usually referred to as something Bad.
But is debt always bad? Read more Cheers Mattias. YouSIMUL8 - The worlds first simulation sharing website. What is the Theory of Constraints? Kanban para la Gestión de Proyectos y Desarrollo de Producto. OnlineKanBan.com - Online Kanban boards. Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 1) Applying Kanban to IT Processes (Part 1) by Eli Weinstock-Herman (tarwn) on December 1, 2009 in category IT Processes IT Service Management Project Management.
Article views: 21,195 This is the first article in a multi-article set that describes the basics of Kanban and explores applying Kanban to IT Processes. Part one provides a basic overview of Kanban and how it is used in manufacturing. The remaining parts explore sample scenarios to help generate ideas for your own environment. Lately I have seen an increase in the number of articles in the Development and Agile Project Management communities that describe the merits of Kanban, showing the value that Kanban has helped provide in conjunction with Agile methods. Most of these articles focus heavily on the visualization aspect (Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards for example) though a few dig into other benefits of Kanban or simply claim Kanban is a silver hammer in search of a nail.
What is Kanban? 1. The Kanban Signal. En programania escribimos sobre todo aquello relacionado con el desarrollo de software. Nos interesa: metodologías, lenguajes, herramientas, etc. Gestión de Proyectos | Cómo armar un tablero Kanban 1. Ágil | Kanban para Gestión de Proyectos y otras aplicaciones. Kanban.Com. Kanban development oversimplified: a simple explanation of how Kanban adds to the ever-growing Agile toolkit. Agile development is a value system — not a process. The Agile Manifesto is a short, 4 lines, set of phrases that indicate what’s important to those practicing Agile development. These statements are the “mom and apple pie” statements for agilists. There’s no specific processes specified — however over the last several years common practice has emerged. (For more on agile value system and culture, read Agile is Culture, Not Process.)
Common Agile Practice takes the best from the buffet Specific processes call themselves “Agile” when they believe the value system that motivated their creation is aligned with an Agile value system. Scrum and Extreme Programming currently dominate named Agile processes. Today’s typical Agile process, no matter what name you call it, takes the best from the buffet of Agile practices to create a typical process where: Shift happens: slow change in common Agile practice causes common problems In many organizations this flow works pretty well. 1. goals 4. done. Tableros Kanban online y off-line en un solo fichero HTML!
Stratstars / BO Implementing. 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work. Las diez lecciones que Steve Jobs nos pueda enseñar. Visual Note Taking talk @ UX Camp London | And here are the notes from the talk that unfortunately got lost on slideshare (no idea how that happened…): Sketchnotes / Visual Note taking What is it? Note taking is about capturing a line of thoughts (from a talk, a video, a book or your own head) to be able to go back to it later and remember the points that are interesting to you. And instead of capturing in pages and pages of written word, sketchnotes are a visual style of note taking that allows for all kinds of visual expression to create richer and more engaging notes. (I’ll get to the building blocks later.) Sketchnotes aren’t new. Artists and designers have captured their thoughts in a visual way for centuries.
But recently, there has been quite a bit of talk and activity around sketchnotes and visual thinking in general. This year at SxSW, Mike and a few other central figures in the visual thinking scene ran a session about visual note taking, giving an introduction to the basic principles of visual note taking. Dave Gray Dan Roam. 10 things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say. I built this software for myself, and then it turned out a million people wanted it exactly how I originally envisioned it. After hiring a few people, being the CEO became a lot easier, and I was able to focus on high-level strategic plans instead of fighting fires. I wish we had spent less time talking to prospective customers before designing interfaces and writing code. The decision of whether to form an LLC, S-Corp, or C-Corp made a significant difference in my startup’s success. Selling the company was an easy decision, and everyone in the company was on the same page.
We were so good at acting that our first few customers never knew we were a new company with no employees and buggy software. Thanks to a software patent we filed, we never had a serious competitor. Our most effective marketing campaigns were the ones filled with buzzwords and non-specific claims. My lack of an MBA degree made building a company from scratch harder for me than for others. Let’s collect more in the comments! Live Simple: Radical tactics to reduce the clutter, complexity, and costs of your life. Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings. During project-based work, every freelancer, agency, or internal department has “the kickoff meeting.” In theory, this meeting should have all the energy, excitement, and potential of the opening salvo of the Superbowl. Project team members should be inspired coming out of that meeting, full of ideas, and a desire to begin exploring solutions.
Agencies and freelancers should begin to see their clients as friends and collaborators with unique insights that can only come from frank, open discussion of the design challenge at hand. But this rarely happens. Article Continues Below Every meeting is an opportunity. Why waste your first one? In reality, kickoff meetings range from somewhat boring to straight-up awkward, and can be an expensive reiteration of project details we already know, assembling the most expensive, busiest people and generating little measurable project benefit. WhatWhen is a kickoff meeting? How many times have you heard this? Before the meeting: arm yourself! The Manager's Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders. Las 5 fases. Ranking de blogs sobre la productividad personal. Son las 11:39 de un miércoles, tengo mucho trabajo y no sé por dónde empezar...
Asuntos para resolver. Tampoco piensas cómo cepillar tus dientes. Las cualidades de Liderazgo más importantes para los próximos 5 años. IBM realiza cada 2 años un estudio mundial de CEOs (The Global CEO Study), cuyo objetivo principal es el de comprender mejor los retos y metas de los CEOs modernos. La más reciente versión del estudio se realizó entre septiembre de 2009 y enero de 2010, y sus conclusiones fuerón publicadas hace poco. The Global CEO Study 2.010 contó con la participación de más de 1.500 CEOs y lideres de todo el mundo, a los cuales se les entrevistó personalmente.
Se les pidió a los CEOs que mencionaran por orden de prioridad las tres cualidades de liderazgo más importantes en el nuevo contexto económico, la creatividad fue la más seleccionada, por encima de todas las demás. A continuación puedes ver las otras cualidades destacadas en el estudio: Incorporar un liderazgo creativo: Los CEOs consideran que la creatividad supera a las demás características de liderazgo. “Creatividad significa crear nuevas formas de resolver problemas difíciles. David Rankin, Director ejecutivo, Auckland City Council.
Gestionar correo electrónico (1) Pequeños pasos... grandes avances. Cuando eliminar cosas de Algún Día/Quizás. Planificar de forma natural. Slow Work.