xxii, 194 pages : 23 cm "Productivity books focus on doing more. Jim and Tonianne want you to focus on doing better ... Personal Kanban takes the same Lean principles from manufacturing that led the Japanese auto industry to become a global leader in quality, and applies them to individual and team work. Personal Kanban asks only that we visualize our work, and limit our work-in-progress."--Back cover Foreword: The agony of crisis management -- Introduction: Personal Kanban: 100% New Age free -- Chapter 1: The basics of Personal Kanban. Towards a more Personal Kanban -- Rules for a system that abhors rules -- Why visualize your work: Navigate safely -- Why limit your WIP -- Why call it Personal Kanban -- How to use this book -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 2: Building your first Personal Kanban. Step one: Get your stuff ready -- Step two: Establish your value stream -- Step three: Establish your backlog -- Step four: Establish your WIP limit -- Step five: Begin to pull -- Step six: Reflect -- Personal Kanban power boosters -- What it all means -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 3: My time management is in league with the freeway. Flow like traffic -- Setting WIP limits -- Living the days of our lives -- Clarity calms Carl -- To-do lists: Spawns of the devil -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 4: Nature flows. Flow: Work's natural movement -- Cadence: Work's beat -- Slack: Avoiding too many notes -- Pull, flow, cadence, and slack in action -- Busboy wisdom: The nature of pull -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 5: Components of a quality life. Metacognition: A cure for the common wisdom -- Productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness -- Defining a good investment -- Reality check -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 6: Finding our priorities. Structure, clarity, and our ability to prioritize -- Smaller, faster, better: Controlling task size and limiting WIP -- Prioritization in theory and practice -- Urgency & importance -- Live your own life -- Expert: Metrics in Personal Kanban -- PKFlow Tips -- Chapter 7: Strive for improvement. Clarity conquers all -- Course corrections: The reality of reprioritization -- The bedrock of introspection -- Retrospectives -- Solving problems at their source -- PKFlow Tips -- Endgame: Endgame -- Appendix A: Personal Kanban design patterns. Jessica's story: Future in progress and multiple value streams -- Sequestering approach: Dealing with repetitive tasks -- Emergency response approach: Taming unexpected workloads -- Time capsule approach -- Balanced throughput approach -- Appendix B: Personal Kanban and social media. Facebook -- Twitter -- Blogging