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Little book of Workflow management

Making your business more effective and more productive

Allan Kelly

Reset the way the way your team works to enrol everyone in getting work done and improving work

Make work positive and fulfilling for owners, managers and workers alike, restore balance and keep getting better

Tried and tested techniques applicable to any team learned from Lean manufacturing, Agile software and elsewhere

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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.

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Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly is a product leader with deep experience of digital product strategy and delivery. Successes include project rescue, business turn around and smoothing client-supplier relationships.

He creates structure, institutionalises operational excellence and builds high-performing cultures using product thinking, agile working and OKRs.

Allan is a regular conference speaker and author of multiple books including the best selling "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile", "The Art of Agile Product Ownership" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers" (which he wishes he'd entitled "Strategy patterns for software products").

Print versions of his books are also available - where you will also find his books with Apress and Wiley.

For more about Allan checkout his website and blog.

Leanpub Podcast

Episode 252

An Interview with Allan Kelly

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Preface

10 easy changes to make work better

  1. IGetting 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

  1. IIImproving

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 …

  1. IIIGoing further

19.Improvement through retrospectives

  1. Dialogue sheets
  2. Future-spectives
  3. Collective brain power
  4. Resources
  5. IVScaling down to one

20.Working alone

21.Solo is not a team

22.What works for Allan

  1. Priority 2 problem
  2. Longer term planning

23.Techniques for one

  1. One list to rule them all
  2. Pomodoro technique
  3. Dice
  4. Checklists
  5. Calendars
  6. Personal Kanban / Lean Coffee

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