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Use Kanban Boards To Finally Get Your Projects Done
How you can increase productivity and monitor your progress at the same time
In this article, I share the surprisingly simple but efficient concept of the Kanban Board with you and how you can make use of it to improve the success of your personal projects or even for managing your household to finally get structured and get your work done.
The history
The traditional Kan (sign) Ban (board) system was originally invented by Taiichi Ohno. It was meant to be used as an easy-to-use and lightweight planning system for optimizing the processes at the Toyota Motor Corporation.
Ohno came to this idea after a trip to the USA where he was inspired by a supermarket chain that managed to have its inventory filled exactly as needed [1] and therefore reached very high efficiency.
After he went back to Japan he began to adopt the system by creating paper cards (tickets) for every product that should be produced. Every worker or team could take only one ticket at a time and took it from process to process (swimlanes). As soon as the last step in the manufacturing process was finished and the product had been sold, the respective ticket went back to the initial process stage. Another worker then could take the…
