Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life

it needed to elegantly manage a highly variable workload and react to a dynamic work-in-process limit.

People are less predictable than organizations. Individuals and small groups—particularly those involved in knowledge work—often engage in projects that are exploratory or inventive in nature. Standard work does not necessarily apply here.

Mapping our work allows us to navigate our life.

Your first backlog-fest should be an uncomfortable experience. You should at some point despair There’s way too much work! But rest assured, overcoming denial, acknowledging the pain, and accepting it needs addressing are stages necessary in understanding our work.

To bring a task into DOING when you have capacity for it.

Our work is our story, both interesting and instructive.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~ John Lennon

Each time you pull a task from READY into DOING, you’re prioritizing based on your current context.

Lean is both a philosophy and a discipline which, at its core, increases access to information to ensure responsible decision making in the service of creating value.