You can surf the deluge of work... and thrive.

Do the best work. | See your work. | Navigate Life. | End confusion. | Collaborate like a champ. | Reduce friction.

Control your response to overload for you and your team.

Finish work you are proud of faster
and reduce anxiety.

Give management what they need
while getting what you need.

Overcome Your Overwhelm!

  • See all your planned tasks at work, home, and everywhere
  • Learn to find the patterns for your best work 
  • Optimize your days and energy for sustainable work
  • Recognize when to adjust for unexpected change
  • Agree on and achieve goals you can actually achieve

Productivity is NOT a Hack

Everyone seeks the perfect framework and productivity hack to get more done ... and they all eventually fail. Even the popular sticky note.

Why? Because if you rely on something outside of your brain to manage your work, you'll never be able to capture all the conflicting priorities and energy drains.

Instead, you need a way to visualize your To-Do list, your priorities, your conflicts, the energy boosting work and the energy drains.

Productivity as a Practice

What if you found a way to visualize EVERYTHING you need to get done?

What if you can then step back and use that visualization to look for patterns?

What if those patterns show you what's truly important ... and where you spend too much time?  What if the patterns show you where you get your biggest professional boost? And what if the patterns show you when it's time to scrap everything and start fresh ... and you get joy in doing that?

What the class offers:

We will help you build and manage your visualization of work and look for patterns through:
  • 4 live Zoom sessions with Dave Prior and Mark Kilby (only teaching topics recorded; discussions not recorded for privacy)
  • Lifetime access to the on-demand introduction to visual management: the Personal Kanban online course ($250 value)
  • Membership in our visual management professional learning community with hundreds of visual management practitioners
  • Personalized guidance on applying visual management concepts to your own work.  The course is open to anyone struggling with their current productivity. 

The Workshop Sessions:

Four Calls, 90 minutes each.
  • Jan 30: Visualize and Plan: Build (or rebuild) your visual management system.
  • Feb 6: See Your Flow: Notice patterns that indicate when you are working well or to find the sources of your overwhelm.
  • Feb 13: Understand Your Work In Progress: How to capture EVERYTHING in your work visualization and track it to see new patterns.
  • Feb 20: Study and Adjust: Practices to make small and large adjustments to your work visualization.  Learn when to trash your visualization, start over, and feel 
January 2025 - USA

Build a Productivity Survival Kit

Taught by Dave Prior and Mark Kilby on Thursdays at 3:30pm PT / 5:30pm CT / 6:30pm ET. (90 min)

The Guided Personal Kanban Experience

Tame Your Overwhelm Like A Boss!
Taught By

Dave Prior, LAVM

Dave Prior, LAVM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CST, has been leading technology projects and helping individuals and teams find better ways to manage their work for over 25 years. He has managed projects, programs, PMOs, and portfolios and has focused on Agile since 1999.

Dave’s journey from waterfall to Agile was not an easy one, and this influences every aspect of his work and how he shows up every day with a simple goal: “...make the journey from waterfall to Agile less painful for others than it was for me."

Dave has been podcasting about Agile and Project Management since 2008. His podcast drunkenPM Radio’s Reluctant Agilist covers Agile basics, best practices for transitioning from waterfall to Agile, as well as guidance and advice from other Agile practitioners and thought leaders on how to address more advanced Agile topics.

Dave bundled what he has learned about collaboration through his consulting, podcast discussions and his extensive research in the Modus Institute course, The Art of War for Collaboration.

In addition to his work at Modus, Dave is an Agile Coach and Consultant and he leads Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner , and Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner classes. He is also a member of the Scrum Alliance TAC. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Taught By

Mark Kilby

For over 20 years, Mark has navigated the treacherous terrain of corporate and government landscapes to help individuals, leaders, and teams find their best path to success.  As a leadership coach, he's explored IT, publishing, energy management, insurance, finance, non-profits, and other diverse business ecosystems.  Mark often finds "the simplest thing that can possibly work" to help visualize and deliver the work needed.

Mark captured many of this approaches to visual management in his book, co-authored with Johanna Rothman: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver.  Based on the book and the visual management techniques of Jim Benson, he co-created the Modus Institute course on building the right environment for distributed teams with Jim.

Mark is also a graduate of the Lean-Agile Visual Management (LAVM) Accreditation program from Modus Institute.
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