https://www.puppeteers.net/tags/kanban/ Recent content in Kanban on Puppeteers Oy Hugo en-US Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/high-level-and-low-level-tasks-in-kanban/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/high-level-and-low-level-tasks-in-kanban/ <p>We use Kanban to coordinate our projects and tasks. Kanban is focused on visualizing and improving throughput, that is, making projects (high-level) and tasks (low-level) go through the system as fast as by limiting work in progress, which in turn minimizes waste (time and money).</p> <p>Our field of work is IT operations and we&rsquo;re generally quite busy with fulfilling requests from our internal and external stakeholders. Most of our tasks are quite small, about 1-4 hours each, and produce value immediately. We can generally get these done (&ldquo;through the system&rdquo;) quickly without having to stop in the middle and can then forget about them. However, we also have bigger tasks that tend to take a lot longer, maybe 8-24 hours of focused work and often involve multiple persons.</p> https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/using-of-the-pomodoro-technique-to-control-distractions/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/using-of-the-pomodoro-technique-to-control-distractions/ <p>We - like many others - have the problem that our work gets easily interrupted. Some interruptions come from the inside. For example, you remember &ldquo;a thing you need to do&rdquo; and without thinking start doing it immediately. Other interruptions are external, for example a colleague ask you for advise or a customer calls you asking for help. Almost always these things <em>could</em> wait a bit, but the person simply acted on an impulse.</p>