518 - Kanban Boards: How to Keep Track of Processes and People

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Whether you're tracking progress through a sequence of steps, or progress through many disjointed steps, a kanban board may be just the tool you want. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/project-management/kanban-boards-how-to-keep-track-of-processes-and-people Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Stephen Robbins.
0:01.9	Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.5	It's delivery day at Green Growing Things plant stores.
0:12.7	Plants are coming in fast and furious.
0:14.7	Roses, petunias, Audrey twos, and daffodils.
0:17.7	Intern, Chris, is running around frantically.
0:19.9	The roses arrived, but there was no space in the nursery.
0:22.5	So Chris moved several pots to make space.
0:25.1	Ooh, but then the patunies needed space, so Chris had to start shuffling roses.
0:28.6	And then daffodils and then Audrey twos, everything is chaos.
0:31.5	And to make matters worse, there is no plant food in stock for the carnivorous Audrey Too's, so they ended up right by the store's entrance
0:37.6	area. Having a hungry Audrey II, greet your scrumptious, scrumptious customers is not a recipe for
0:43.4	long-term business success. Chris needs to find a way to physically untangle all of the steps that
0:48.6	need to happen in order to get new plants into the store. Plants get ordered. Space in the showroom gets reserved. Plant
0:55.6	food gets ordered. Plants arrive at the loading dock, and then plants get moved into the space
1:00.1	that's now in the showroom. In episode 514, Make Your Business Better with the Physical Conbon
1:05.3	method, we learned that the con bond method from lean manufacturing can be used to track physical
1:09.5	objects by putting information
1:11.1	about an object on a physical card. But here, what Chris needs is a way to keep track of which
1:16.7	step a given plant is in at any given time, all in one place. And for that, we can use a conbon
1:22.6	board. Conbon boards track anything that's going through a process.
1:32.4	Grab a whiteboard and erase everything on it, and then draw several vertical lines separating it into columns.
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