Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life

The office isn’t just process, it’s people.

never be the smartest person in the room if you ever expect to grow.

‣If you pick one thing to do, and do it completely, people will notice. ~ Trevor Blake

. Pomodoro is a perfect complement to Personal Kanban, helping you process your WIP in 25 minute bursts. With Personal Kanban, you understand that you’ve organized your tasks, pulled the best one at the time, and will get to the others in due course. This makes it easier to focus and reach completion.

If you find yourself de-cluttering more than once a month, then it’s likely you are overcommitting yourself, making your tasks too granular, or not prioritizing well enough.

Having multiple active tasks is okay, so long as they are steadily moving towards completion.

Go ahead, turn up the heat on your backlog and sweat (out) the small stuff. Quickly process those five minute ankle-biters.

Jessica was not simply goal-oriented, she was a goal-collector. First and foremost, we needed to get that under control. Setting well-defined and achievable goals is admirable, but when they generate more tasks than we can handle they need to be tamed.

life is complex and cannot be taken for granted.