Personal Kanban - What is it and Why Use It?

I have struggle for many years with a personal management system and have spent most of my adult life waffling between the original The 7 Habits planning system and countless others. Using David Allen’s, Getting Things Done and his MSO Outlook attachment was the longest I stayed away from the Covey system. I eventually went back to the Franklin Planner and have tried several versions of that. I continued to use a version of it but my sticky notes and bulletin board next to my desk says it all. As techie as I am, I still want a physical board that I can write, post and move things on! The question is how do you put order to the chaos.  

In the fall of 2009, I ran into several people that were not trying to take my chaos into their system but rather embraced it and told me to follow 2 simple rules: Visualize your work and Limit your work in progress. These efforts led me into working with the Personal Kanban teachings of Jim Benson & Tonianne DeMaria Barry co-authors of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life. In fact, I did a podcast Kanban too simple To be Effective? with Jim Benson in the winter of 2010.

I welcomed the co-authors to discuss the book but we ventured away from a how-to podcast to a subject of how they began using Personal Kanban and their struggles in implementing it themselves.  Part of that discussion was about the writing of the book with most of it being done while at two opposite ends of the country. They are quite candid about what worked and what did not for them and who could be a better critic.

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Personal Kanban is neither a prescription nor a plan. The book provides a light, actionable, achievable framework for understanding our work and its context. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.

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