Post on 23-Jun-2015
Sandy Mamoli
@smamolsandy@nomad8.comwww.nomad8.com
The evils of mul8-‐tasking and how personal Kanban can help you
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Mul8-‐tasking Exercise -‐ part 1
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Mul8-‐tasking Exercise -‐ part 2
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I realised I had a problem
Organisa8onal mul8-‐tasking
“ ... to maximise u,lisa,on and deliver as many projects as possible, people are on between 3 to 5 projects at the ,me ...”
Head of Project Management Office (PMO)
Internalised frustra8on
Buzz around the team
Rules of the game
A 10-‐second Kanban recap
• Visualise your workflow -‐ so you know what you’re doing
• Limit work in progress -‐ so you stop mul8-‐tasking
Expedite?
Process and flow
Achievement not ac8vity
Only the owner can add tasks
Categorise your work
Timeboxing
Effect on people
“No one ever shouts at a wall”Jim Benson
Con8nuous improvement
Be\er work-‐life balance
Can I have an iPad app?
Tac8le connec8on
You can’t carry it around
Spreading like a rash
Making boards
Effects on the organisation
Dangers of personal Kanban
Did I just make this up?
h\p://www.personalkanban.com
Mul8-‐tasking slows us down
Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking, Gerald Weinberg, 1992
Mul8-‐taskers are suckers for irrelevancy
Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass and Anthony D.Wagner “Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009
“No one's brain is different enough to make constant interrup,ons, distrac,ons, and task-‐switching an op,mal environment in which to func,on. No one's.”
So what next?
Build one yourself
• Buy black foam board material
• Cut a rectangle of ca. A3 size
• With a white marker draw 4 columns and label them
• Split the “Doing” column into “Doing” and “Wai8ng”
• Make a line at the bo\om for the habits/notes area
• Let the paint dry
• Start using your board
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