Little book of Workflow management
Little book of Workflow management
Making your business more effective and more productive
About the Book
Allan Kelly has spent years helping teams become more effective and productive in their work. In this book he lays out his step-by-step for formula for you to do the same in your business. Best of all, this approach doesn't depend on senior people directing each action and becoming central to productive work, quite the opposite.
The people who do the work are the experts in making it better. This book sets out how to organize work so everyone can contribute to getting it done and continuing improvement.
Table of Contents
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- What is this?
- Who is this book for?
- Preface
- 10 easy changes to make work better
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I Getting started
- 1. Improvement starts by making work visible
- 2. Benefits of a live work scoreboard
- 3. Pull, don’t push
- 4. Control intake
- 5. Limit WIP - Time to use the wip
- 6. Shared to do list
- 7. Shared planning
- 8. Break down: Big goals and small tasks
- 9. Make you board central to everything
- 10. Team board not project board
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II Improving
- 11. Worse before better
- 12. Management change
- 13. Where to find improvement
- 14. A culture of fixing blocks
- 15. Reducing queues
- 16. Moving backwards? - when quality makes you faster
- 17. Marooned work
- 18. Waiting for …
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III Going further
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19. Improvement through retrospectives
- Dialogue sheets
- Future-spectives
- Collective brain power
- Resources
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19. Improvement through retrospectives
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IV Scaling down to one
- 20. Working alone
- 21. Solo is not a team
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22. What works for Allan
- Longer term planning
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23. Techniques for one
- One list to rule them all
- Pomodoro technique
- Dice
- Checklists
- Calendars
- Personal Kanban / Lean Coffee
- What tool is that?
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About the author
- Links
- Also by Allan Kelly
- Version
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