I Kanban

As I mentioned two posts ago, I’ve been busy. So I started using Agile Zen kanban board in earnest. I’m not really kanban-ing in its true sense as I understand, but rather using it as my to-do list in different stages. It’s easier to manage than just a plain to-do list since I can easily see what stage a certain task is at and I can group related items in the same color. Because I’m using their free version, I can have only one project, but it suits me just fine for my personal kanban. I guess you could say I’m using the colors to represent projects or subprojects.

As you can see, I can work on only a few items a day since I only have an hour or two a day on a good day, and certain things need to be done during certain hours of the day. But I’m not using it to improve efficiency although by organizing my to-do list like this, it did improve.

There are a lot of items in the Backlog category, which I use to put the items that I need to do but not ready to work on or the items that I need to remember to do some time in the future, like buying the frozen raw food patties for the dogs and portion them or preparing the daily medications and supplements for each dogs  for whoever is going to take care of my dogs while I’m gone, etc.

It’s a pretty cool tool. I hope they come up with an app for iPhone by the time I get it next year since I would like to be able to see this when I don’t have my laptop or  internet connection.