The other night over pastries and slowly delivered tea in Seattle, David Anderson and I spent a good deal of time discussing personal kanban.  David was adamant that it was in fact a big deal, because the nature of personal tasks is much more complex than team tasks. He then encouraged me to blog about my experiences with it. For a while now, I’ve been using personal kanbans for myself and for my teams. I said that I had been using them for a while, and didn’t think it was a big deal.  At Modus Cooperandi , Corey Ladas and I experimented with a variety of them. 

So when Bill Ives just recently questioned whether you could make use of Twitter as a Personal Knowledge Management tool I couldn’t help but wonder myself whether I am using it as well as my PKM tool of choice, along with my own personal business blog and a couple of other tools. Thus here is how I am going to start using Twitter now as one of my Personal Knowledge Management tools. I have been using Twitter now for over two and a half years and, all along, if you have been following some of my recent twitterings , you would know how I seem to keep having a love / hate relationship with it.

This is the second post in Jim Benson's Personal Kanban series . Personal kanban is going to have some divergence from industrial kanban. There are basic issues that ensure that it's not so easy to just draw some lines on a board and call it a personal kanban. Personal kanban recognizes that the creation of personal value is often (but not always) The technique was designed to visualize products as they moved through a value stream.  They focus is on value and not on the task.  But as people, we are highly task based.

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This is blog post six in my Personal Kanban series. The mess will happen from time to time because personal tasks are unruly. And there's more to come: The Throughput Approach to Personal Kanban in Detail... ...Tags: Tags: Life Management Personal Kanba Individual work is a real PITA. Over time, we invariably amass a lot of small tasks that are necessary but not urgent. 

If your personal kanban is shared, they may even have a stake in your task completion. You can use it as an individual by identifying your personal elements of prioritization and making those the dots. So where the color blue may have been team member Julie, it can also be an attribute of your personal value needs "income generating" or "deadline approaching" or "politically sensitive".    Do You See What’s Happening Here? Right now, some of the most popular games for portable platforms Planning and prioritizing is a wicked problem that has plagued humankind since time immemorial. –

This is the fifth post in my Personal Kanban series.  The massive variance in work item types, sizes, and dependencies make personal kanban a very different animal than work group kanban.  What follows are a few personal kanban approaches I’ve used to try to overcome these variability issues. Some of the approaches are not coordinate with traditional kanban rules, but the variability of personal work requires some creative application.  If any of these don't make sense now, stay tuned. In a few days I'll have detailed posts on how I've used these. Time capsule

Here we are at post 8 of the Personal Kanban series. Problematic for personal kanban is that its task-based nature undermines the lean’s value-tracking goals. Kanban, not even personal kanban, is not a to-do list.  Personal kanban tracks tasks because that’s primarily how individuals measure work and value. Your personal kanban can have multiple swim lanes, and they in no way need to be coordinate.  A task based swim lane can rest above one or more subproject swim lanes with a full value stream. This allows you to see your current work simultaneously

In the classical networking approach, the game is about presenting yourself in the most favorable light possible while flattering the other person into giving you their contact information. This requires intense curiosity, deep listening and empathy that seeks to understand the context that other person is operating in. It also requires willingness to disclose vulnerabilities, since Social networking is becoming more important, both at the individual and institutional level. For many, this provokes a negative reaction.

The three main categories I use then are personal, professional, and organisational. Personal use might include using dating sites, having a social network account to connect to friends and family, uploading your family photos to a photo-sharing site. Personal use is most likely to be the category where attention to social network service permissions - who is able to see what - is particularly important to users. Professional use could include the use of a professional networking site, or the use of a social network, a blog or other website to showcase and record work, develop