How to express your goals with kanban

Currently I’m studying #coaching. Coaching is all about goals. One of the first things we should do is define which goals we want to pursue. A good action plan to achieve a goal should have 4 things:

• the declaration of the goal as a result
• the roamap to achieve that result as short to medium goals distributed in time
• metrics to indicate conclusion or progress on the roadmap
• indication of resources used, consequences, risks and losses on the way to the goal

So I started asking myself if a kanban board could be used to express visually this action plan. Why?

• to visualize your commitments
• to see your diverts and be empowered to change
• to be more realistic with your goals by seeing time, actions expressed as verbs
• and to see a purpose and flow in your daily actions

I’m thinking about creating a board that could show the action plan to achieve my goals. It should have:

• the declaration of the goal as a result presented by a SENTENCE or IMAGE
• the roamap as STICKIES on the board, distributed in columns; but how to indicate time?
• metrics to indicate conclusion or progress on the roadmap; the DEFINITION of DONE to the stickies
• indication of resources used, consequences, risks and losses on the way to the goal; any clues on this?

I still dont have some answers to this thinking, so I’m sharing in the blogosphere hoping to build this idea together. I promise to post my progress here.

Budget Kanban

Won’t tell now how I became a kanban user, maybe later, ok? For now if you’d like to know more about #kanban go to http://www.personalkanban.com, there’s lots of things interesting on the topic. Thanks Jim and Tonianne for that!

So, I live with my wife and 2 kids (one more is coming!). I’m always trying to manage our money effectivelly, and read lots of books on finance planning, budgeting, saving. I’ve created lots of logins in online tools to track where my money was going. Also worked on lots of excel spreadsheets in order to have an anual budget.

Unfortunatelly, it never worked for me… 😦

Having used kanban successfully to track house activities and kids chores I started to realize that I could use kanban to try to track my money… maybe it could work!!