Family Kanban?
As a father of four, it's hard to keep track of the kids' activities - especially in these challenging times where we need to homeschool them.
It's almost impossible to keep an overview on who needs to learn or do what. Some of the kids get weekly tasks from their teachers, others get 5 different tasks a day ...
It would be cool to have a big family kanban board with a swimlane per kid (and for the parents too).
I could put the tasks from my day-job and my side-business on it too and maybe even things like cleaning the kitchen or walk-the-dog.
The whole family could do a stand-up meeting in the mornings.
Has anyone of you ever tried something like this?
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Hi @TraderStef. I have tried similar to kanban for my family couple of years ago. We were family of four that time (5 now) and as working parents, we always want to be part of their life as much as I can. I used to do sprint planning for a month (not weekly or every other week, created templates once for each of us). I printed out weekly schedule(very colourful) and put it on the wall to follow. Then retro every weekend. It was hard to do the standup everyday that time (no homeschooling, and work).
I used to add all important learning, entertainment, chores, play game together along with my personal development and side projects.
The thing which we couldn't do in the sprint for 2 weeks (liked planned for together cooking) , we DELETED it because not point of chasing a thing which is not important enough to make.
If you know more about its success and failure stories, happy to chat.
I like the idea of this and often dream about it. Alas, it ain't gonna happen for us.
It's like starting a blog or a journal, the idea and the long term results are great, but the idea of trying to get my family on board with it is a slog :D
Of course, it's different for everyone. What we've ended up with is regular 'mini stand ups' between my husband and I, discussing the day, what's happened so far, what needs to happen. For context, we swap duty with kids every few hours.
I use ClickUp (https://ClickUp.com) for my family and my side hustles. We really like how you can have a Kanban style board and a Calendar view really easily. Also, I can keep all of my side hustle work just accessible to me, but share the family space with my whole family.
I highly recommend it.
Hi,
you can take a look at this https://blog.trello.com/the-sage-strategies-of-agile-families. IMHO this is significantly harder to implement at home rather than at the office esp. when you're the only one pushing this. Even if both parents are used to this type of task mgmt, making employees out of your kids seems very hard...
The approach is very interesting though - esp since due to the lockdown our houses are turning into small business units anyway...
I completely agreed with you @dimitristi. The rules for an efficient board for work cannot be applied to home. You have to live with everybody's emotional demands.
What I have learned is that with smaller kids it is easy to push them, but with teens, it is TOO HARD. You have to find different strategies to bribe them.