All Entries in the "DesignPatterns" Category
GTD & Kanban: Series Overview
For a long time I have been a Getting Things Done (GTD) advocate in both my personal and professional life, starting from the basics and working my way up to a full blown implementation in various paper and electronic forms over the years. GTD has been a huge help, yet I have always felt there [...]
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 off the more they will eventually eat up a lot of our time. Such tasks [...]
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 – or lanes through which value flows. In your personal kanban, it is possible to [...]
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 a kanban. If you have a CMS and need to check in with 3 customers [...]
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 have multiple swim lanes, and they in no way need to be coordinate. A task [...]
Orange Days – Batching Unattractive Tasks
Sometimes we procrastinate. Kanban highlights procrastination so it doesn’t sneak up.
Mission Based Kanban – Personal Kanban for Small Teams
Kanban for Small Teams and Rapid Projects, track work, build fast, finish successfully.
Personal Kanban for Authors
Creating a kanban specifically for writing projects. Good view of an evolving work flow
Kidzban – Personal Kanban for Kids and Why it Works
Personal Kanban works for kids. Combining clear expectations with work flow in a game-like system equals fun!
