The major disadvantage of a wall-based personal taskboard is its pure static character. You can't take it with you for travelling or for working on it at home. Here's the solution: the mobile personal taskboard. Side note: this version of the personal taskboard is not used by myself but I like the idea a lot. For me it works to move the 2 most important task from my wall-based board into my paper book. So my paper book is some kind of additional optional external kanban lane. Don't forget: always inspect and adapt! This topic ...
Just a small update on my personal task board: as the open tasks got more and more it was hard to filter and select the next task to pull into WIP (work in progress). Solution: tasks are now sorted by urgency from left to right and by importance from bottom to top. The most upper right task is ready-ready to jump into WIP. To be continued...
A few weeks ago I setup a personal taskboard at the wall next to my desk. It had three lanes like a Scrum task board: "open", "in progress", and "done". After one day there were lots of things in progress and two tasks were done already: The major problem was the number of tasks in progress. There were just too many things ongoing so that control could easily get lost. Fortunately things were sorted out a few days later. Lots of things done and few things in progress: After a while I recognized the repeating problem ...
