Lecture - Create your first Personal Kanban

A common approach to creating your first board. If you find you'd like to dive in deeper into how Personal Kanban can help, I have a self-paced online course that covers things like managing repetitive work, dealing with interruptions, managing projects and more.
You can find it here, and with this link get it for 50% off - www.udemy.com/visual-time-man...

[@downbntout]

If you peel off a sticky from bottom to top, it will be curled and not lie flat. If you peel it horizontally left to right or vs versa, it will be flat.

[@i_am_shiva7013]

downbntout Thank you!👍

[@TulioSounds]

also if you stick it vertically instead of horizontally it will stick a much longer time.

[@downbntout]

@@TulioSounds and I like to cut them in strips with sticky on one end. My to-do list is inside a blue non-hanging file folder, each item on a strip. I can move them around as they become more urgent/important and after glancing at it each morning, I know what to do today, and I put it away with no need to remember all of them.

[@HaidarHavana1998]

alternatively, pull it straight down 👍

[@CreativeThinking52]

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing yourknowledge. Happy Easter!!😊🐰 704 likes

[@MrSammotube]

Kanban is awesome. I think that with Personal Kanban, the problem is that you cannot easily determine the limits as your spare time can vary massively. The limits make more sense at work where you have a set amount of time available. Having said that, I just introduced my wife to Kanban and she likes being able to assign chores to the backlog and to discuss priority and I can move them through the workflow! Honestly, this is much less stressful than having loads of chores barked at you and you have to remember them and do them all!

[@gerrykirk4741]

Hi Mr. Sammotube. I hear you on the wife front - the primary reason we started ours at home was because of too many unmet expectations and things falling through the cracks. Communication and coordination improved dramatically. As for WIP limits, I encourage you to play with them and see what feels right. Some times you may want a lot more in motion, other times not. Size of work items matters here, too. A quick example: my wife was constantly putting way too many items in the Today column, and so she got discouraged at the end of each day. I suggested we count each day how many she got done, and the magic number turned out to be 6. We set a limit of 6 on her Today column and now she felt really satisfied at the end of most days. :)

[@svrs]

I know.. old vid, but I got a lot out of it. and, thank you for not talking about it like it's a restaurant model.

[@skaterdude14b]

Excellent video !! Great calm, relaxed pace

[@theophilusnwokolo7090]

Thanks @garry. This is one the easiest explanation on personal kanban.

[@thotireddy8585]

Thanks, very clear and concise explanation of Kanban

[@GerryKirk]

Your welcome Thoti, have you set up a board for yourself? At home? Work?

[@spindrifter2]

Good simple explanation for somebody starting Kanban.

[@largohla1382]

The most simple, effective explanation. Thank you.

[@gerrykirk4741]

Your welcome Largoh! How are you using Personal Kanban?

[@largohla1382]

I am using it via the computer....but I think I need to see it in a wall or a flipchart format. Seems like it needs to be in full view at all time for it to be effective for me.

[@brandon.hendrickson]

Thanks - I've been struggling to set up a personal Kanban board, and this was helpful!

[@GerryKirk]

Brandon Hendrickson happy to hear that. Come back and share how it is going.

[@GerryKirk]

Brandon Hendrickson how's it going so far Brandon?

[@mariadelong5640]

The video is really good, It helped me to organize my paper work as special ed teacher, with this visual board I can have more control and understand where are my tasks.

[@mfion]

Hi Gerry, Thank you for this useful tutorial. At the end, you talk about teaching us how to add repetitive tasks to the Kanban board in the next video. I can't seem to find that next video among your uploads. Can you please give me the link? Thank, again!

[@pebre79]

this was a superb explanation. thanks so much for posting!

[@GerryKirk]

Your welcome, glad it was helpful! For a deeper dive, there is a lot more available at my course www.udemy.com/visual-time-management/?couponCode=TAKE37

[@bradleymelle]

Thanks, Gerry!

[@prajakta7693]

nice video. simple and easy to understand

[@Meraadj]

Great video! I will start using this method! Where can I find the part about repetitive tasks?! I'm curious to see what works best for them!

[@gerrykirk4741]

+Meraadj glad you found this video helpful! There are a variety of ways to handle repetitive tasks, depending on the type of task, personal preferences and tool limitations. If you'd like to dive in deeper, I do have a detailed video as part of a course on Udemy. Use this link to get 35% off the regular price. 30 day money back guarantee so at minimum you can watch the video on repetitive tasks in the 30 days.I think you'll find the course good value for money, though. :) www.udemy.com/visual-time-management/?couponCode=197

[@selinakiefer6129]

Wow, this helped me a lot! Thank you!

[@GerryKirk]

Selina Kiefer delighted to hear that Selina. For more tips and support, I invite you to join my mailing list at www.gerrykirk.net

[@danettefowler4276]

Great !!

[@GerryKirk]

Your welcome Andrei. How do you hope to use Personal Kanban? What kind of work do you do?

[@FELAFERIA0307]

great! tnx from italy

[@gerrykirk4741]

Your welcome Aniello!

[@casper_218]

Gerry do you have any videos that deal with reintroducing the tasks from Waiting back into the Doing after resolution. As resolution times aren't predictable, I worry that this is where I run into problems with being overloaded in crunch times.

[@GerryKirk]

Dustin Ogan indeed, Waiting can become an overloaded bucket. My suggestions are to put a WIP limit on Waiting and order by the date they arrived, so the oldest are at the top. If you'd like to dive in deeper, I do have a detailed video as part of a course on Udemy. www.udemy.com/visual-time-management/?couponCode=197

[@ungka91]

thanks for the explanation

[@GerryKirk]

Your welcome, glad it was helpful to you! How are your experiments going?

[@skyfooty]

Where's the next part of this dealing with reparative tasks?

[@snapninja3454]

thanks

[@downbntout]

Since Kanban was first from Japan, can we all pls say it as 'Kahnbahn'?

[@jeremycarey2772]

Isn't Waiting On column just waist