My Kanban Board
From the Project Management in Real Life Blog
by Drake Settsu
Sharing my Project Management adventures and some tips.
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The Daily Kanban Board
Capture daily project activities of all your projects on a spreadsheet. Use the Kanban Board spreadsheet to make important project notes. The Kanban Board notes will be used to update your MS Project plans or other project tracking software. Keep it very simple with three columns consisting of To Do, In Progress, and Done. Create a daily tab on the spreadsheet carrying forward outstanding activities on the new Kanban Board spreadsheet tab. The tabs come in real handy as a source of historical activities on the projects.
Kanban Board at a Glance
Having a visual view of all your projects on a spreadsheet Kanban Board style is very useful to help keep you on top of everything.
Updating Project Plans
Review the daily Kanban Board at the end of the day. Update your projects plans with the final project activity notes for the day. Updating your project plans throughout day to keep it fresh is good, but there are days that it's better left untouched till the dust settles at the end of the day.
Sample Kanban Board Spreadsheet
This is an actual snapshot of my Kanban Board spreadsheet that I use. You need to enlarge it to see it better.
Posted on: May 16, 2018 10:30 AM |
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Interesting Drake.
Is this is somehow different and tailored a bit ?
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
Thanks Rami and Eduin.
Rami - The Kanban Board is tailored to track daily activity for all the projects you are managing.
Anish Abraham
Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington
Auburn, Wa, United States
Good one, Drake and thanks for sharing.
Alok Priyadarshi
Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Thanks Drake - Fully Agree !
John Duncan
Retired| Retired
Lebanon, Tn, United States
Thanks for this article. Great point about using available tools (spreadsheet) to implement this.
Good article, Drake! I'm old school so I prefer the tactile fun of ripping down stickies from a whiteboard-based Kanban board!
Kiron
Thank Drake. Kanban Boars are great, even when they are not using Kanban. like this board :-)
Karen Rowson
Senior Project Management| Elevance Health
Richmond, Va, United States
Love old-school like Kiron said. Usually the post-it has the task and owner's name on it.
Thanks John, Kiron, Sante & Karen.
Drew Craig
Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Cool, Drake. Have you considered using other options to allow for simpler movement across the board?
Either way, great stuff.
Thanks Andrew.
The board is a work in progress. My main objective of the board is to capture daily project activity and have a historical audit trail of activity. I make notes on it to schedule meetings for projects. I also find it helpful for follow up reminders. The beauty of the board is the visual glance of all your projects in one place.
Excellent Drake, it is really a good area to explore further and further
Great stuff Drake, thanks for sharing
Michael Schijns
Senior IT Project Manager| WhatUp INC
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Thanks for sharing, always looking for new tools or tricks.
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