LeanWorking

LeanWorking is helping Modus Cooperandi host a Personal Kanban conference on 17th November 2009.  More details can be found here.

The GTD & Kanban series continues over at PersonalKanban.com, this time showing techniques for combining GTD Project & “Someday/Maybe” lists into a Kanban to increase flow.

LeanWorking & Modus Cooperandi share a common vision for the future of modern day product development and optimisation through collaboration and personal productivity.

Modus Cooperandi have been instrumental in popularising the use of Kanban in the software product development industry, by employing some key figures and producing such publications as “ScrumBan” by Corey Ladas as part of its “Modus Cooperandi Press” business.

Jim Benson, CEO of Modus Cooperandi, currently working on a new book “Instant Karma: 10 Principals Of Social Media For Business“, has been the force behind PersonalKanban.com and creating a Personal Kanban movement.

LeanWorking & Modus Cooperandi are now collaboratively exploring new ways for product development teams, knowledge workers and individuals in their own lives to experience greater focus, achieve more and reduce waste.  More to follow…

The series continues and this time Paul sets the scene behind bringing “Getting Things Done” (GTD) & Kanban together over at PersonalKanban.com.

LeanWorking has just submitted another article from Paul Eastabrook on personal productivity over at PersonalKanban.com.  This time, Paul wants to show you how to get control of your reading pile!

LeanWorking’s Paul Eastabrook has just started an original series of posts around combining Kanban with “Getting Things Done” (GTD) to increase throughput and reduce waste in your use of GTD.  Head on over to the PersonalKanban.com site to read this series and other great material.

LeanWorking specialises in Product Development, Collaboration and Personal/Team Productivity as part of its service offering.  As part of this, we wish to contribute in a meaningful way to current thinking on these topics.  Recently LeanWorking has been contributing ideas to the development of Personal Kanban, and in the spirit of creating a community of practice that LeanWorking will now regularly contribute articles to this growing Team/Personal productivity approach.

We are pleased to announce our new line-up of services.

LeanWorking is a boutique consultancy specialising in Lean & Agile product development practices for teams of knowledge workers.  We compliment these practices with a strong use of collaboration and personal/team productivity techniques.

We at LeanWorking believe that Lean & Agile Thinking forms only part of the solution to getting your teams to focus on generating value and reducing waste.  Complimenting Lean & Agile practices in an applied manner with collaboration and team/personal productivity techniques makes for a powerful and compelling approach to achieving greater focus and ROI.

LeanWorking was started by Paul Eastabrook in 2009 after ten years working in the City of London for some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.

In his professional career up until starting LeanWorking, Paul had consistently been building and transforming internationally distributed teams.  As an established practitioner of eXtreme Programming, Scrum (CSM) & Lean (including Kanban), quite often he was of the opinion that there was more to great teams than their understanding of these things, indeed, even if they were mature in their adoption.  Often it was the collaboration efforts, the team attitude to creating positive outcomes for all parties and the teams/individuals abilities to handle knowledge work outside of the work covered off by the processes which was what differentiated them.

Having trialed the ideas over a number of client engagements as an independent contractor and consulting with fellow professionals, Paul decided it was time to do something about it – LeanWorking has been born!