Does anyone use a personal Kanban / Scrum board for project management activities (rather than work items)?

Question

I've seen plenty of people using Kanban or Scrum boards to manage the work of a project.

However, I also use a personal Kanban board to manage my work at home, so I was curious - does any PM use a Kanban board to manage the work that they, personally, have to do as part of their day-to-day work?

If so, what kind of things do you put on it? Conversations you have to chase up? Information you're waiting for? Reports you have to produce?

Has it been helpful to you, and in what way? Were there any surprises? Recommendations?

(I am looking for more information on using this to focus on personal work, rather than the use of boards for team collaboration and status tools).

If nobody is doing this but someone would like to try, I'd be interested in what you discover.

Answer 1

Here is a great article on personal productivity written by Paul Klipp.

It's a mix of GTD, Kanban and Pomodoro. Tasks on the Kanban board are anything from reminder to do 50 pushups (tiny task) to 1-hour tasks (large) or even bigger (huge). Tasks which have exact due date, like meeting at 5pm, goes into calendar instead of Kanban board.

This approach can be easily adjusted to project management tasks. Actually many tasks Paul mentions are project management-related.