Re:Personal Kanban 101
by wpietri on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:25AM
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I don't use this app, but I'm a big Kanban fan. For me the motivation to close items comes through WIP limits. For my personal Kanban setup, I have a WIP limit of 3 for active tasks, and three for "pending" tasks, by which I mean things that are blocked waiting for somebody else.
If I have 3 active tasks, that means I have to pick from among them to work on something. For me, that usually results in finishing what I've started in reasonably quick order. I also aim to favor closing an open task before pulling a new one from the backlog, which helps further.
Once I do this consistently, it generates motivation (or perhaps decreases the sapping of my natural motivation) in that I'm in the habit of getting things flowing through the system and minimizing WIP.
If I have 3 active tasks, that means I have to pick from among them to work on something. For me, that usually results in finishing what I've started in reasonably quick order. I also aim to favor closing an open task before pulling a new one from the backlog, which helps further.
Once I do this consistently, it generates motivation (or perhaps decreases the sapping of my natural motivation) in that I'm in the habit of getting things flowing through the system and minimizing WIP.