Kanban Kit

Posted by Ken
May 6, 2015 at 03:30 PM

I admire Kanban as a tool, but it seems to have somewhat limited application in certain workflows, especially if you have large amounts of projects, tasks, subtasks and notes. Trello, for example, is a visually appealing piece of software, and it is handy for certain types of work, but I find it quite difficult to pull out critical tasks from a number of projects on a daily basis. Asana is better, but I guess that that I am finding myself in that middle ground of too many tasks for simple use of a program like Trello, and not enough tasks to be comfortable saying that these five out of several hundred tasks are key and need to be addressed ASAP. I frequently have a number of open tasks that are priority, and while I can only address one at a time, the list of them is just too much to display effectively on a screen. So, like many of us, I partially use a variety of task managers, and I supplement that with pads of paper, scraps of paper and post-it notes. This really is not ideal, but staring at a screen filled with tasks does not seem to help matters either, but unfortunately for me, tasks that are out of sight are out of mind. Very frustrating, and a work flow that has been hard to modify over the years as the amount of work as steadily increased.

—Ken