The Priority Filter – A Prioritization Tutorial

I finally finished the first Personal Kanban video. (There are way too many videos that never made it past the cutting room floor).  This first one is a quick tutorial about prioritization.

Prioritization is often even more difficult and daunting as the tasks that confront you. A priority filter in your Personal Kanban helps you determine what tasks are ready in your queue, and the order of importance they should assume. 

Note: This video is best viewed full screen.

Comments

[Sue]

Hi Jim, just found your blog today via various people I follow (one of those social media zen things). I haven't yet checked into your Personal Kanban link but I'm interested so I watched your video. This looks very cool!

I may have missed this important explanation in the video but I'm hoping you'll forgive the "stupid" question - where you have "Priority 1, Priority 2, Priority 3" listed across the top of the lists, would those relate to major projects or clients that you have on the go at a particular time? Or say, "Work" "Family" and "Personal" columns?

[Jim Benson]

Hi Sue,

The priorities are merely priorities... buckets of importance. You can note different projects or work types by using different color stickies or shapes or even separate Personal Kanban instances for each project.

But the priorities themselves can hold any kind of task.

jim