I've been using #Obsidian for a year and a half now. I've done several complete refactorings of my vault, written a couple of plugins. In general, I consider myself a pretty advanced user.
But today, I discovered a new plugin, and it's #Kanban 🤦♂️. How could I not have looked at it more carefully before??
Ugh, now the Kanban Universities flavour of #Kanban finally has a formal role:
"If (...) there isn't a single person responsible and accountable for ensuring the end-to-end coordination from customer order to delivery, then that role is needed for a deep, meaningful, fully functional Kanban system to emerge, and the name for that role is service delivery manager." (David J. Anderson, 2023 in 'Discovering Kanban', p. 131)
Does anybody have any suggestions for an #opensource#selfhosted#kanban platform that is not based on #postgresql with a preference for #sqlite or something like that. Ideally, I want to be able to just launch one container and have it up and going. I am starting to reconsider if #Podman was really the right choice over #Docker for my #production instances, because otherwise I'd happily just be loading up #compose files. #programming#taskmanagement#trello
"There's a commonly held myth that a lack of a time-bound delivery commitment, such as a sprint demonstration, will lead to a lack of focus, laziness, and increasingly long delivery times. There is, in fact, no such evidence from more than a decade of #Kanban usage. The fear is one generated by those who sell #Scrum training and coaching for a living and wish to dissuade adoption of Kanban or customers from switching." (David J. Anderson, 2023 in 'Discovering Kanban', p. 108)
The use of Kanban for running a family is totally underrated. It really has transformed how our family get things done.
Sunday is planning day. Check the week, whats going on, activities for the kids, sync and estimate how much time we have available for various projects.
Then we add work from backlog towards ongoing. And we go through inbox to prioritise and add new items to backlog.
Throughout the week if we think of something new it goes to the Inbox. Rinse and repeat.
If Agility is the ability to respond to changes in a meaningful way, a huge part of that consists of the time it takes until this response is in the hands of the customer so that a feedback loop can form.
If that's true, what's the value of Discovery Epics or Stories, Spikes, Dual Track whatever...
If you use Obsidian with the KanBan community plug-in, you likely filter cards by a search term from time to time. Especially on huge kanban boards with a ton of cards.
Here is the problem: By default, non-matching cards are dimmed while matching cards keep their style. I find it visually too cluttered. I’d prefer to only see my matching cards.
Here is my silly reverse-engineered CSS-only solution. Definitely one of my funniest selectors. Works great.
Screenshots of a kanban board coparing the same board before adding the css code and after adding the css code. In the before state the search term #hateit is active. All matching cards light up. All no matchin cards are dimmed. After adding the CSs code the same filter only shows the matching cards. All non-matching cards are gone. Way less visual clutter.
Effectively planning and managing a complicated life can be made easier and less stressful if you adopt approaches like Kanban and Getting Things Done.
I’ve been waiting all day for my new whiteboard to be delivered. Allegedly it is coming by Royal Mail before 7.30pm. It is now 7.19pm and my hopes are not high. I really wanted to get started with my #KanbanBoard tomorrow #Kanban
So after ten or so attempts at finding a good #kanban board for personal projects I'm throwing the towel. I'm going back to #Obsidian (or maybe #orgmode, if I ever decide to reinstall Emacs) and just using #Markdown and checkboxes (headers for epics, emojis for priorities).
Everything else just feels like overkill. Maybe good for managing teams, but either unwieldy and inflexible or too vague for personal stuff.
Which certification factories (*) do you see out there?
(*) commercial organisations whose purpose has become to sustain the primary income source of certified trainers who would not otherwise sell training classes without the certification. And whose primary purpose has shifted away from knowledge sharing, fulfilling education and learning needs of its professional community and and doing good by it
I'm not 100% sure because I never tried but allow me a bold claim:
If you start writing a new #Kanban Software and assume you'll need a table-like datastructure for the board, you're already doomed to become the next Trello Clone.
Morning! It’s a dark, cloudy one, not really proper daylight. I’ve just walked into town - the bacon was gone - to the voice of a Peloton instructor called Matty who adopts a sort of “everyone’s gay best friend” persona. The topic for the playlist was “one hit wonders” and I was most offended that they played Bittersweet Symphony. I guess The Verve didn’t make it big in America. Academic work this morning and a creative #kanban session this afternoon, which I’m looking forward to. Tell me about your day as we hurtle towards the weekend
Somehow, classical to-do lists quite often don't cut it for me. I need more status information, at least to distinguish in-progress tasks from those not even started quickly. Are there some lightweight tools for my personal #Kanban that satisfy a deep love for polished interfaces and a good UX?
What to change? - What to change to? - How to change?
Have you ever heard of these questions? Not? Then it is time for another book on your shelf. If you know „The Phoenix Project“, you might like the format of „The goal“ from Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
It’s a super interesting novel about a plant that is in trouble and how it avoids to get closed.
Edit: Trello is going to be the most accessible it looks like, thank you for the recommendations!
I'm starting to search for a #kanban style task management board that offers easy one click sign in from Google or Apple and can assign tasks and due dates to individuals. Doesn't have to be free or open source, ease of use for non technical end users is a priority.
Any leads or recommendations?
I finished the #Kanban class. Now, I need to take a deeper look at the metrics charts. I think this will add another professional layer to my experience so I can support #agile teams even more. Good invest! (I hope that soon a team can benefit from it.. still on the hunt for a job)
Effectively planning and managing a complicated life can be made easier and less stressful if you adopt approaches like Kanban and Getting Things Done.