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Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life

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twobyfouronAug 18, 2017

There's a book called "Personal Kanban" about using Kanban to organize your own work. I liked some of the principles it espoused, but ultimately found it awkward to manage returned to a more traditional set of GTD lists.

maya24onFeb 6, 2021

The only thing I really got out of this long article was the importance of having a customized organizational and workflow system that suits your lifestyle. For me there's two books / methodologies that has made a huge impact in how I think about and organize my work. The first is David Allen's getting things done system. It is extremely generic but comprehensive and suitable for pretty much any kind of knowledge worker. The second is using a personal kanban board for organizing all of my work and personal tasks. Highly recommend the book Personal Kanban.

with a sufficient organizational assistant in place I don't feel the need to be productive all the time. I know that when I sit down my work is already planned ahead so I can immediately start being productive. I also review and plan my work ahead a little bit which saves a lot of time and makes contact switching less costly.

TerrettaonDec 30, 2019

Personal Kanban: http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/

Try the book.

After the book, you’ll be better equipped to scale from 2 or 3 devs to 20 or 30 devs while remaining low overhead, because you’ll understand the essence of iterative and collaborative development versus what’s been watered down and ceremonialized into Agile/SCRUM.

epalmeronAug 18, 2017

Some days I have a lot of different tasks to accomplish and support items come at me usually at the wrong time (before vacation, at 5PM,...). For the last month I've been using kanban to manage my work (trello) with these columns

backlog
on deck
doing
waiting
impeded
done

This has reduced my stress and gives me a place to put things to do as they come up.

I read Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria Barry first. I found the book a bit overdone in explaining and justifying why. But maybe that is just me. I'm a scrum coach with 11 years experience as a scrum coach and 2 years as a product owner so I get the backlog, planned, doing, done thing.