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Posted by Prion
May 6, 2015 at 05:16 PM
Hugh wrote:
>Ah, OK, Kanban Kit. But is it the only one?
On the Mac there are the usual suspects that can be bent to make a Kanban-style project management possible: Curio and Tinderbox.
Some months ago I searched for Kanban PMs on the Mac that did not store their data (MY data) somewhere in the cloud and came up empty-handed. While I do have something running in Tinderbox that is not completely terrible it is not something that is particularly advanced or satisfying. I like the visual feedback of urgency and achievement, but it is the data aspect that I am not completely happy with. Managing the data inside Tinderbox requires more Tbx skills than I happen to have and linking to the data outside adds another layer of complexity that can easily become overwhelming.
Is that feeling of not being quite there and as a consequence not trusting the system enough that leads to disuse and - ultimately - abandonment also CRIMPing?
I’ll probably never get past that stage…
Prion
Posted by jaslar
May 6, 2015 at 07:51 PM
I agree that finding a single tool may not be possible nor wise. But I find myself often dipping into Mindscope on iOS about once a week. It offers a very customizable Kanban board that has the advantage of nested lists or further sub-boards. So that’s an offline choice. A very clever bit of programming. I also like that it allows me to just drag the text around the screen, and even to draw relationships between things. So I can take several lines of text and arrange them in a circle (or pyramid, etc.), then fiddle with the order. I almost recommended it again to Dr Andus when he was talking about rapid fire brainstorming - but it’s not online.
Posted by Wayne K
May 6, 2015 at 08:11 PM
I’ve mentioned before that you can create a kanban-like board in XMind using the “Matrix” structure. This creates a kind of spreadsheet with each cell containing a mindmap node. Each node could be used as a kanban item moving along the horizontal track of a matrix row. Each node has the usual collapsible info of a mind map node.
It doesn’t have explicit tagging but you can accomplish something similar using markers, labels and advanced filtering (I haven’t used this function yet).
In addition, a single node inside a matrix cell can itself by a matrix with its own rows and columns.
If you’re interested in seeing a different take on organizing info, I strongly recommend giving this feature a try. I’ve never liked mind maps but this version has really won me over.
Wayne
Posted by Paul Korm
May 6, 2015 at 08:26 PM
Curio & Kanban
If you look into Curio Forum at zengobi.com you’ll find discussions of a very workable Kanban model made in Curio by @DRJJWMac—one of Curio’s maesters
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 6, 2015 at 09:49 PM
Hugh wrote:
>Ah, OK, Kanban Kit. But is it the only one?
There is something similar to kanban, Scrumdesk, which offers an installable version as well, but it doesn’t come cheap http://www.scrumdesk.com/download/
There is actually a very good reason for most tools being on the web: they are mostly aimed at collaborative projects. Within such a context, in particular for distributed teams, physical boards are rather useless. By contrast, they may be very well suited for personal kanban.
I’ve been using Kanban Tool with my team for some months now, on a mission-critical application, and can recommend it. It’s a Polish product, supported by very good knowledge of project management needs (and plenty of tips). I should probably add that over the years I’ve developed a lot of respect for Central and Eastern European software offerings.