Personal Kanban or Personal Kanbans?

[Mikael Suomela]

Hi there!

I'm sorry if this issue has been discussed previously (a little search came up with nothing). Do you folks keep one Kanban or several?

I've been experimenting with several. I have many roles and a few of them seemed to merit a PK of their own (I do lots of work as a one man shop...). It seemed a like a good idea in the beginning, but then after few weeks it kind of started to feel lopsided. What I do now is I keep a kind of a big PK on a wall and sync one portable PK manually with the large PK.

I felt I needed the sync, because I was doing a weekly retrospective and felt that I was achieving very little until I realized

 that the stuff I was working on the portable Kanban was not showing on the retrospective (and thus was not visualized often enough).

If you have many roles to play (let's say you are entrepreneurial :) ), how have you solved multiple role question on PK?

Do you keep a portfolio Kanban? A project Kanban?

Thanks, Mikael

[Jim Benson]

Hi Mikael,

At Modus we try to do a few things:

1. Have an overall kanban that lets us track what's happening every day - so Toni, Corey, Patty, and I can see what's going on.

2. Have smaller, project based boards that track individual projects and their progress.

What we were finding was that having one huge board showed us what we were doing, but didn't give us enough insight into the rate of completion for our projects. While syncing can be a drag sometimes, being able to get clear momentum for a specific project has proven extremely valuable for us.

For Portfolio kanban ... I may have some blog posts coming up about that. :-)

Jim

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[Michael Stirrat]

Here's what I have in my Kanban stack:

1 for the work team projects (shared board)

1 for my personal work projects and goals

1 for my GTD runway tasks and small projects

1 for my personal non-work projects and goals

I use Gina Trapini's todo.txt for my personal GTD runway tasks. It's very lightweight and very smartphone friendly.

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Thanks.

Mike Stirrat