Work in progress...
You must have heard so much talk in the business world about Project Management and various approaches to it. Most popular terms used in project management are Agile, Scrum, KanBan, Lean, and a few others. Everybody has been managing projects throughout their personal lives in one way or the other, which made me think of why not apply the same principles of project management to these as well. So I started this blog with the aim of figuring out how to accomplish this and how effective this approach would be. The more I thought and wrote about it, the more I realized that I am discovering* a whole new approach of making my life more manageable and at the same time achieving results that seemed to be always becoming ever so farther away, as more clutter (new goals) joined the apparently un-manageable list of "Things-to-do". *(I am pretty sure there are many others who would have come across this discovery before me). Lets go through the journey of discovering and applying the agile project management principles to our day to day life and hopefully get a grip on our life and achieving results we are always striving for, but seems to be just out of reach.
The project management theme I am going to use is more leaning towards SCRUM and KanBan, both belong to the Agile category made popular by so many large corporation from almost every major industry, but used more effectively by aviation and software industries.
To get started with Agile Project Management, first step involves making a list of features required in the end product/service. In our personal lives, we can equate the feature set to goals (both are the end results we want to achieve). So here we are actually setting up goals, and the I approach I prefer is to make use of the "Wheel of Life". I wrote a blog entry some time ago about achieving success in personal life and mentioned the famous "Wheel of Life", which is basically a wheel with 8 spokes that cover various aspects of life and if all of these are well balanced, then the life becomes a smooth rolling wheel. For each spoke on the Wheel of Life, you should write down a list of goals that would result in a perfect 10 score. The trick here is to be very specific in what the goals are, not general goals like " I want to be healthy, wealthy and wise.." . Explain what being healthy means to you in terms of ideal weight, BMI. Indicate exactly how much wealth will make you wealthy. What being wise means? does it mean getting trained on a new skill, or getting a degree in a particular field... and so on.
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