The personal Kanban experience is enforcing the way I define goals each week. When I write on the post-it, that goal is possible because I imagine it how it should be finished.
At my first week with this tool, I noticed that with my board always insight I have a global view of the tasks that I need to finish. And that is really important, because it gives the feeling that you are progressing. It is my first week with this, and I am very lazy, so with this board I get an additional pressure to finish my tasks.
I felt the need to signalize blocked post-its (blocked post-its are tasks that are blocked from some reason) to differentiate from other tasks. That way you get an extra-motivation because it does not only depend on you if that task is not completed.
At the end of the week I make the question “Why you are not completed?” to each one of the post-its that are in the backlog column. Off course the answer should not be laziness, if it is, you need to change something like DON’T PROCRASTINATE (like me sometimes).
Conclusion:
The personal Kanban tool is still a very recent experience for me, and I am still learning how to be more effective and productive. The column “done” of the board is very important for me, because it gives me the motivation each time I complete a new task and see a lot of post-its there.
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I am trying to use Personal Kanban as well. I use asana.com instead of a board though. It organizes you to use Today|Upcoming|Later|Done vs Ready|Doing|Done bins for your tasks.
I prefer not using sprints. And I like asana because it’s very easy to move stuff around and add notes to them. My problem is that I am always changing the goal. So some stuff gets moved down or out and new stuff gets moved in…
Yes,
Now I am using google docs spreadsheet instead of the board with 4 columns: Backlog, Planned (for the week), Doing and Done.
The goals need to be very concrete instead of abstract. We can see the goal accomplished. If it is too complicated it’s harder to do.
Thanks for the opinion.