Search results for: “task manager”
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The value of Kanban
Kanban (capital-K, as in the method) uses a kanban (lowercase-k, as in the board) to visualise and reduce work in progress (WIP for short). This is the most well-known, and visible, part of Kanban. It is achieved by limiting how many pieces of WIP any one work centre can have assigned. At first glance, this may…
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Change Management: It’s not about gatekeeping
This was originally written before I read chapter 18 of the DevOps handbook. I feel strongly that peer review has greater legitimacy and chances of success than a system where a change manager is solely responsible for changes that may or may not fall within their area of expertise. It further grants employees more agency…
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A new phone – useful apps
Note: For the next few posts, I will cover my choice of a new mobile phone, what considerations I have made and what applications I am running through it. As mentioned in my previous post, the Android Market has a plethora of more or less useful apps for Android. Here are the ones I…
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At a glance: Process Explorer
Process Explorer Originally uploaded by razumny At a technical seminar, I was introduced to the magic of Process Explorer, a tool developed by SysInternals (now a Microsoft-owned company), which picks up where the taskmanager leaves off. Found here, it is contained within a 1.5 MB zip-file, and it runs without installation. At a glance, I…