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Personal Kanban

July 13, 2009 09:13 by author

Chad Albrecht

Jim Benson has been writing a great series on the positive effects of Personal Kanban. After reading his Tangible Tasks Produce Prioritization post I started thinking about using a card wall in Microsoft Outlook. Since I leave Outlook open all day, it would be a natural place for me to keep my card wall. Additionally, if I could sync it with my Windows Mobile device, it may replace my current notepad and whiteboard system. I have done some quick searches of the net and there doesn’t appear to be any solutions out there. I am considering building the application myself. Thoughts? Would anyone be interested in this?

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July 11. 2009 15:00

Hi Chad,

I sure would love to see how you pull that off. The issue of permanence is vital to a functioning kanban - and what makes a net-based or software-based kanban problematic.

If you do it, let me know.

Jim

Jim Benson

September 20. 2009 10:08

We have started an open source project for kanban called Digaboard (http://digaboard.net). It could definitly be used for Personal Kanban, I have actually been using Digaboard for the development of Digaboard which was basically personal kanban. I use it to visually track tasks and organize ideas into builds... otherwise I am constantly coming up with new ideas during development and could easily be lost into a tangent of coding a feature I thought of on the spot. Instead I now create a new task on the board to look at and prioritize/organize later.

Either way, check it out. And if you are interested in joining the project, ping us.

Brandon Ragan

November 12. 2009 15:21

You might try LeanKit Kanban as a web-based personal Kanban board. It can be used to manage not only small personal Kanban activities but also larger projects with distributed teams. http://leankitkanban.com. There is a free version with one board and up to 5 users.

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