Personal Kanban is a productivity and effectiveness tool for individuals or small groups with two core rules: visualize your work and limit your work in progress (WIP).

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Is it possible to handle perpetually ongoing tasks in Personal Kanban?

I'm exploring organization systems like Personal Kanban and one thing I'm still not clear on is how to represent ongoing activities that are always there and always have to be done. For example, say ...
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Failure tracking in Kanban tools ? Is it the philosophy of the tool?

I've been trying Kanban tools for a few days, and I do think I can adopt one of those tools really soon. I 'll decide after the 3 weeks routine period if it still fits my need. I wonder: I immediatly ...
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Where do I leave 'keep in mind' things?

In GTD and personal kanban, you put all tasks and projects into a backlog/todo column. Where do I put things that I have to 'keep in mind' when performing those tasks? For example: every time I want ...
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How to manage time sensitive tasks on a kanban board

I use personal kanban. On my board I have priority stickies (i.e. red, yellow, green). My backlog fills up pretty quick with tasks. My issue is keeping the time sensitive backlogged tasks ...
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Does Personal Kanban work better on physical post-its board or electronic tool?

I like the big visible sense of the post-its board but I cannot carry it around! Any thought?
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How do I handle tasks that take long periods of time with Kanban

I see a question out there for ongoing tasks handling those in kanban. I am asking more about how to handle lengthier tasks with Kanban. Currently I have a board and I run the following columns: ...
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How to handle emerging sub tasks and dismissed tasks-in-progress

When working on a (programming) task, often I discover that the goal I set cannot be achieved the way I thought: either (1) it must be split up, or (2) abandoned altogether. In the Pomodoro book, this ...