Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
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- Author：Dominica Degrandis
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Vishnu
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Such an interesting well written book and many techniques to implement : 8 TAKE AWAYS1] EVERY DEPENDENCY DOUBLES YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING DELAYED 2] FOCUS IS THE MATTER OF DECIDING WHAT THINGS YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO 3] PRODUCTIVITY IS ABOUT PRIORITIES AND FIERCELY PROTECTING YOUR TIME 4] MANY THINGS CAN BE IMPORTANT BUT ONLY ONE THING CAN BE MOST IMPORTANT 5] IN DELAY THERE LIES NO PLENTY 6] MULTITASKING IS AN OPPURTUNITY TO SCREWUP MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME 7] GOAL IS NOT TO KEEP PEOPLE BUS Such an interesting well written book and many techniques to implement : 8 TAKE AWAYS1] EVERY DEPENDENCY DOUBLES YOUR CHANCES OF GETTING DELAYED 2] FOCUS IS THE MATTER OF DECIDING WHAT THINGS YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO 3] PRODUCTIVITY IS ABOUT PRIORITIES AND FIERCELY PROTECTING YOUR TIME 4] MANY THINGS CAN BE IMPORTANT BUT ONLY ONE THING CAN BE MOST IMPORTANT 5] IN DELAY THERE LIES NO PLENTY 6] MULTITASKING IS AN OPPURTUNITY TO SCREWUP MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME 7] GOAL IS NOT TO KEEP PEOPLE BUSY ALL THE TIME ， THE GOAL IS TO GENERATE VALUE 8] NEVER LET FORMAL EDUCATION GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR LEARNING 。。。more
Bud Winn
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Great reference moving forward
Tùng Lâm Phạm
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Những năm gần đây， cùng với làn sóng Agile tràn vào các doanh nghiệp ngoài IT， khái niệm Kanban có lẽ không còn quá mới mẻ。 Kanban được áp dụng trong các cuộc họp， quản lý công việc， theo dõi khách hàng，。。。 nhưng dường như đa phần người ta chỉ xem Kanban là một đồ hình không hơn không kém。 Cuốn sách này sẽ thay đổi suy nghĩ và hiểu biết vốn có của bạn về Kanban， một phương pháp tư duy tinh gọn và linh hoạt， cũng như cách mà Kanban có thể giúp bạn xử lý những kẻ cắp thời gian。 Sách viết ngắn gọn， Những năm gần đây， cùng với làn sóng Agile tràn vào các doanh nghiệp ngoài IT， khái niệm Kanban có lẽ không còn quá mới mẻ。 Kanban được áp dụng trong các cuộc họp， quản lý công việc， theo dõi khách hàng，。。。 nhưng dường như đa phần người ta chỉ xem Kanban là một đồ hình không hơn không kém。 Cuốn sách này sẽ thay đổi suy nghĩ và hiểu biết vốn có của bạn về Kanban， một phương pháp tư duy tinh gọn và linh hoạt， cũng như cách mà Kanban có thể giúp bạn xử lý những kẻ cắp thời gian。 Sách viết ngắn gọn， súc tích， cực kỳ logic và có tính ứng dụng cao。 Điểm trừ duy nhất theo tôi nằm ở khâu dịch thuật， nhiều đoạn dịch rất ngô nghê， tối nghĩa， có lẽ kiến thức trong sách hơi vượt quá khả năng của dịch giả！ 。。。more
Jekaterina。savinova
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Brilliant book that is easy to read， is full of inspiration， practical exercises and helpful tips。 Very well structured content with lots of good visuals。 Information and practises shared are applicable for complex environments and help to uncover hidden work that often results in continuous delays， customer and team dissatisfaction。 The book not only shares how to visualize work， but outlines how to establish continuous practises for better delivery and happier teams。 Took lots of notes and can Brilliant book that is easy to read， is full of inspiration， practical exercises and helpful tips。 Very well structured content with lots of good visuals。 Information and practises shared are applicable for complex environments and help to uncover hidden work that often results in continuous delays， customer and team dissatisfaction。 The book not only shares how to visualize work， but outlines how to establish continuous practises for better delivery and happier teams。 Took lots of notes and can't wait to apply lots of this in my and x-functional teams day to day！ 。。。more
Mark
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Good book， yet it's by FAR most apropos to software development （or maybe more generally， product development）。 It's true that one in another area can benefit， but it's not always clear， and it should be very clear that this is not directly about optimizing general workflow。 I would have rated it higher had the title not been a bit misleading。 My environment is very different and it was not always easy to see what did and didn't apply because the WHY behind the recommendations was not always cle Good book， yet it's by FAR most apropos to software development （or maybe more generally， product development）。 It's true that one in another area can benefit， but it's not always clear， and it should be very clear that this is not directly about optimizing general workflow。 I would have rated it higher had the title not been a bit misleading。 My environment is very different and it was not always easy to see what did and didn't apply because the WHY behind the recommendations was not always clear。 But I did get some out of this。 。。。more
Allison
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There were some really great tips in here about productivity！ It really nailed some of the big pain points in so many offices/businesses when it comes to workload and efficient productivity。 This one was worth the read and I've recommended it to some friends。 There were some really great tips in here about productivity！ It really nailed some of the big pain points in so many offices/businesses when it comes to workload and efficient productivity。 This one was worth the read and I've recommended it to some friends。 。。。more
Henry Suryawirawan
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A great read on productivity and getting things done by making the work visible。 Love the visualization and the explanation， especially on the 5 thieves of time。 This book also covers a lot of concepts from Kanban and is very relevant to the current agile practices and modern time in which everyone seems to be overwhelmed by the insurmountable amount of tasks and distractions。I highly recommend this book for "busy" people who are looking for better ways to manage the "busyness"。 A great read on productivity and getting things done by making the work visible。 Love the visualization and the explanation， especially on the 5 thieves of time。 This book also covers a lot of concepts from Kanban and is very relevant to the current agile practices and modern time in which everyone seems to be overwhelmed by the insurmountable amount of tasks and distractions。I highly recommend this book for "busy" people who are looking for better ways to manage the "busyness"。 。。。more
Hugo Dias
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Must read for anyone working with agile teams。
Jamie Fowler
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It took me a long while to get through this book。 I saw there's a new edition coming， but I wouldn't take the time to re-read it。 There's just no place for this stuff now if your team is using Jira or something similar。 And， *spoiler alert*， people aren't getting together in rooms with piles of post-its and markers anymore。 It took me a long while to get through this book。 I saw there's a new edition coming， but I wouldn't take the time to re-read it。 There's just no place for this stuff now if your team is using Jira or something similar。 And， *spoiler alert*， people aren't getting together in rooms with piles of post-its and markers anymore。 。。。more
Murph Grainger Peters
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Quick， easy to digest read about Kanban techniques。 Highly recommend for anyone trying to invest more in agile project management。
Adriano Jesus
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O autor enumera os principais ladrões de tempo:- muitas tasks em WIP;- dependências desconhecidas;- conflito de prioridades;- trabalho não planejado;- trabalho negligenciado;O autor segue apresentando formas de otimizar o fluxo e tornar visível os problemas usando o Kanban。Cita algumas teorias relevantes sobre fluxo de trabalho como teoria da restrição e teoria das filas， fortalecendo o propósito do livro。Livro com resumo bem rico e prático sobre o tema， fácil e rápido de ler。
Ismail Mayat
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Filled to the brim with so many insights and practical labs to do what it says on the cover。
Bram Wijns
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Dominica shows you how to expose different time thiefs with good examples。 She also shows how to make work visible and how to improve step by step。
Hoang Truong
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Hợp lý cho quản trị kinh doanh， đặc biệt trong ngành IT
Sergey Kuntsevich
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Brief and concise creation。 Wrote in simple way， while often lively。 Good start point for diving into Lean and Kanban。
Fernando Guerrero
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Tiene recomendaciones prácticas y efectivasCreo que Dominica logra captar muchos problemas y frustraciones que vivimos en los proyectos y equipos y sabiamente te da una perspectiva diferente de cómo visibilizar el problema y que sean las personas las que lo resuelvan。
Vivek Sainanee
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This has a lot of great productivity tips。 It’s told in a readable， digestible format。 My critique though， is that the good stuff is hidden in a ton of waffle。Some highlights / takeaways:“When we can’t see our work， our options are obscured。 We’re blind to our own capacity and we certainly can’t communicate that capacity to others。 The resultant mental overload creates stress。”Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of。—Benjamin Franklin“Time is life—use time wisely。 We workers a This has a lot of great productivity tips。 It’s told in a readable， digestible format。 My critique though， is that the good stuff is hidden in a ton of waffle。Some highlights / takeaways:“When we can’t see our work， our options are obscured。 We’re blind to our own capacity and we certainly can’t communicate that capacity to others。 The resultant mental overload creates stress。”Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of。—Benjamin Franklin“Time is life—use time wisely。 We workers are drowning in nonstop requests for our time。 From developers to IT operations people， it’s overwhelming to keep up with the ever increasing demand”-context switching kills our ability to settle into work“Kanban is a visual pull system based on constraints that allow workers to pull work when they have availability instead of work being pushed onto them regardless of their current workload”“My boss asked me， “Hey， do you want to manage the SAP Basis team as part of managing the build and release team？” Like an idiot， I said yes。 I don’t know how I could have possibly set myself up for more failure。”Limit WIPContext switching prevents flow Don’t people please Don’t underestimate tasks Don’t accept work just to be a team player / avoid humiliation When people say “do you have 5 mins？” you should say no “Every dependency doubles your chance of being late”There is one most important thing—let people know what it is（Be clear about priority 1）The more people invest in a project， the harder it becomes to abandon it， even when a more rational decision based off of future value would be better。 This is known as sunk cost fallacyTime is what we want most， but what we use worst。—William PennHost retros specifically about time wasting activities 。。。more
Jason Axley
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Very readable and practical advice on how to up your game to not only deliver more but not loathe doing it。 Good stuff on metrics and other tidbits。 As a security professional， there are a lot of aspects touched on here that I've been trying to bring to security - especially customer-focus and outcome-oriented goals vs。 metrics and busy-ness。 Very readable and practical advice on how to up your game to not only deliver more but not loathe doing it。 Good stuff on metrics and other tidbits。 As a security professional， there are a lot of aspects touched on here that I've been trying to bring to security - especially customer-focus and outcome-oriented goals vs。 metrics and busy-ness。 。。。more
Đinh
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Sách khá khó đọc。 Tuy nhiên sau khi đọc xong。 Hảo áp dụng được khá tốt nguyên lí kanban trên Trello， quản lí được công việc và thời gian cũng tốt hơn， bớt trì hoãn và bớt thấy áp lực trong công việc， học tập。 Cuốn sách giúp Hảo nhận ra được một số góc nhìn Hảo chưa chú ý tới và từ đó cải thiện hơn được về chất lượng。Nói chung nội dung cuốn sách phù hợp để áp dụng thực tế tốt nhưng sách viết hơi khó đọc và khó hiểu nên mất nhiều thời gian đọc lại để áp dụng được hơn。
Hugo Brisson
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Good intro book to lean management and WIP constraints。 I would recommend this book to anyone who is beginning their journey in improving flow of work。 For advanced practitioners， while the book still offers some clever ideas， it will not bring major revelations。
Nikos Koukis
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* Easy to read and digest。 That being said， you can probably get away just by reading the main points at the end of each chapter。* What the book says is not something groundbreaking。 One interesting thing to keep in mind is the exercises at the end of each chapter。 Maybe they can be used in meetings to identify the aforementioned thieves of time and to increase productivity* See chapter 2。7 for a list of useful board designs to keep in mind （multilevel boards， Done vs Done Done， PDCA， Home Proje * Easy to read and digest。 That being said， you can probably get away just by reading the main points at the end of each chapter。* What the book says is not something groundbreaking。 One interesting thing to keep in mind is the exercises at the end of each chapter。 Maybe they can be used in meetings to identify the aforementioned thieves of time and to increase productivity* See chapter 2。7 for a list of useful board designs to keep in mind （multilevel boards， Done vs Done Done， PDCA， Home Project 。。。more
Roman Kolodiy
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Must-read for anyone who use Kanban。 Author highlights importance of measuring progress as key and true indicator of team performance， as it could uncover those nasty reasons why many projects got delayed all of the time。 In the first chapters we can familiarise ourself with well-known “Thefts” that prevent from getting work done， in the second chapter we are introduced to tools and processes that help to deal with “Thefts”。 In the third chapter we discover useful metrics that could help improve Must-read for anyone who use Kanban。 Author highlights importance of measuring progress as key and true indicator of team performance， as it could uncover those nasty reasons why many projects got delayed all of the time。 In the first chapters we can familiarise ourself with well-known “Thefts” that prevent from getting work done， in the second chapter we are introduced to tools and processes that help to deal with “Thefts”。 In the third chapter we discover useful metrics that could help improve delivery predictability。In the summary author gives advices on bringing change inside the team。 。。。more
Miguel Silva
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Interesting but I was expecting more， maybe because I already know the topic and I’m working on improving Work Visibility and efficiency for a while now I didn’t found new information on the topic。 If this is a new topic I recommend the book， if you are someone that already works on this field you will only validate your knowledge :）
Venecia
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Actionable content on how to implement lean kanban in teams that struggle with workflow - was great to have examples in each section
Pallav Jha
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This provides an introduction to Kanban by first raising and then answering:- Why do you need it in the first place？ - The book starts with the real-life experiences of the authors that uncover how their time was being stolen by the most common thieves。 These thieves being the unplanned work， too much WIP， every work being the top priority， etc。， with the elephant in the room being "Telling yes to anyone anytime！"。 I found this section to be very relevant and was able to find these common thieve This provides an introduction to Kanban by first raising and then answering:- Why do you need it in the first place？ - The book starts with the real-life experiences of the authors that uncover how their time was being stolen by the most common thieves。 These thieves being the unplanned work， too much WIP， every work being the top priority， etc。， with the elephant in the room being "Telling yes to anyone anytime！"。 I found this section to be very relevant and was able to find these common thieves in my scenarios as well。- How to use it with your team？ - In the 2nd section of the book， the author starts with the basics of Kanban and supports the learning by adding some real-life examples。 I found them to be generic enough to get myself started。- How to use it to make decisions？ - As the work is visible， thanks to Kanban and the team， it can help out everyone in deciding the next set of tasks to pick。 This visibility can also help in figuring out the "bigger picture"。Being a novice I found this book to be a necessary read and I will recommend it to anyone wondering how their time vanishes without the work getting completed。 。。。more
Andy Parkes
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I have mixed feelings on this one。The short description of this is that it's a high level overview of Kanban。 If you're already aware of what that is though a whole bunch of this book will mostly be familiar to you。 So while this is a really well put together book I didn't come away from it bristling with new ideas。 That would be different if the concept had been new to me though I have mixed feelings on this one。The short description of this is that it's a high level overview of Kanban。 If you're already aware of what that is though a whole bunch of this book will mostly be familiar to you。 So while this is a really well put together book I didn't come away from it bristling with new ideas。 That would be different if the concept had been new to me though 。。。more
Wilson Gov
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Insightful little bookWe all know that we are constantly being interrupted during working hours， seems we can't ever finish anything meaningful， but why？ This book explains in a nice way the time thieves， makes a case for flow metrics。As I read the chapter for flow metrics I measured all the flow time and cycle time， calculated the distribution of my team velocity and was able to prove few things that I knew were true but couldn't actually convince nobody。 Just for that I think this book deserve Insightful little bookWe all know that we are constantly being interrupted during working hours， seems we can't ever finish anything meaningful， but why？ This book explains in a nice way the time thieves， makes a case for flow metrics。As I read the chapter for flow metrics I measured all the flow time and cycle time， calculated the distribution of my team velocity and was able to prove few things that I knew were true but couldn't actually convince nobody。 Just for that I think this book deserves a read。 。。。more
Bill Hunt
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An engaging read that rings true when held up against decades of experienceThis book was an engaging read with its casual graphics and friendly conversational tone。 As I read through the assessment of our core adversaries - the time thieves - I could relate to each one with painful familiarity， yet appreciate the novel approach the author brings to sharing strategies to combat them。 I have worked in agile， kanban and traditional project delivery for manufacturing IT groups， startup style payment An engaging read that rings true when held up against decades of experienceThis book was an engaging read with its casual graphics and friendly conversational tone。 As I read through the assessment of our core adversaries - the time thieves - I could relate to each one with painful familiarity， yet appreciate the novel approach the author brings to sharing strategies to combat them。 I have worked in agile， kanban and traditional project delivery for manufacturing IT groups， startup style payment processing ecom， major retail， and big finance industries。 This advice rings true when held up against decades of experience in digital and technology shops and I think you will find great value in reading it。 。。。more
Charles Baker
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One of the simplest yet best books I've read on Kanban， Lean and Agile workflow。 Highly recommended。 One of the simplest yet best books I've read on Kanban， Lean and Agile workflow。 Highly recommended。 。。。more
Gabe
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