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A WIP Workout: Pomodoro and Personal Kanban
Pomodoro is the workout: Personal Kanban is the trainer. Continue reading
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Visualizing the Flow: Polar-State Based Personal Kanban with Habit Trackers
James Mallison shared a bit of insight and I’m passing it along. In a recent post he discussed issues very close to what I call visualization and flow. He begins with a little story about Jerry Seinfeld: A couple of … Continue reading
The Task Based Personal Kanban Approach in Detail
Imagine you have a number of tasks that need completing, and you need to visualize the state of each task. Let’s say that each of these tasks is going to involve several days of information exchange with others. Now let’s … Continue reading
The Time Capsule Personal Kanban in Detail
Individual work is a real PITA. Over time, we invariably amass a lot of small tasks that are necessary but not urgent. We end up with a number of things that aren’t high priorities but, the longer we put them … Continue reading
The Throughput Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
In the previous posts we looked at the Time Capsule workaround to having a backlog cluttered with small tasks of varying importance. This throughput approach might help mitigate the need to use that approach. Kanban tends to have swim lanes … Continue reading
The Sequestering Approach and Personal Kanban
Personal tasks are often repetitive or open-ended. Daily phone calls with your kids, an on-going email thread with your college roommate, or follow-up with potential clients are tasks that need to be carried out, but that don’t fit neatly into … Continue reading
The Subproject Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail
Problematic for personal kanban is that its task-based nature undermines lean’s value-tracking goals. Kanban, not even personal kanban, is not a to-do list. Personal kanban tracks tasks because that’s primarily how individuals measure work and value. Your personal kanban can … Continue reading
Personal Kanban for Authors
Creating a kanban specifically for writing projects. Good view of an evolving work flow Continue reading
