With an explicit Retrospective column, you do that verification, but still keep the week’s work visible _and_ have a column there that says “You need to do your retrospective.”

Even the best of us frequently miss retrospectives because it’s just too easy at the end of the week to skip them.

Thanks Kel!

What’s the difference between the complete column and the retrospective column. It’s not clear to me why both are needed.

Thanks and Regards,

Kel

There is no wrong place for a post like this though. I’d love to see a screenshot of your use of Stickies.

Ideally, one screen would always be the kanban – but I know as well as anyone, that’s simply not feasible.

Thanks again for the kind words.

On my two-monitor Mac, I’m experimenting with using Stickies, which can be color-coded, are collapsible, and whose text can be formatted for added emphasis or distinction as needed.

The background for one monitor acts as the cork board with vertical, labeled columns, and watching the flow of projects horizontally gives me a sense of progress.

Most of the day, this display on one monitor is obscured by other application’s palettes (namely Adobe apps), but with a few keystrokes, I can view it clearly while hiding all other windows.

I adjust the monitor’s background image as needed in Photoshop, adding/removing/resizing/relabeling columns. I’m currently using two banks of columns – primary and secondary.

It’s evolving, thanks to your – and your readers’ – ideas. Keep up the good work.

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Difficult to visualize, but worse yet if not visualized.

Looking forward to seeing how your PK turns out.

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What application are you using there?

I am inclined to use sticky stacks but had trouble with what gets put out of sight. I think I will look for clusters, because often dependencies are inter-cluster and the in-cluster ones are simply sequential.

I need to deal with multiple streams also. My computer infrastructure needs serious updating, and that includes migration of data, retirement of some machines, planning upgrades, etc. Meanwhile, I have to move off of Blogger before they cease support for publishing to my own site by FTP on March 26, and this impinges on infrastructure work. And then there are the billable projects, stansdards-devvelopment work, dealing with tax season, veterinary schedules, … [;<).

I am not sure what to do about the calendar business. It's a wall-space and visibility problem for me. My best calendar attention is in Outlook, and I will need to be creative about connecting between that calendar and items on my physical Kanban display.

Thanks, this gives me plenty to think about and to try out as I reshuffle my PK display today.

OmniFocus does not have an API, but I managed to hack something together using the OmniFocus applescript dictionary and Appscript. http://flic.kr/p/7HffMq

My definitions : backlog = uncompleted tasks with no due date or due date in the future | WIP = uncompleted tasks with due date <= today.

Sorry about being off topic here. I realize this has little todo with the priority filter

-A