Some days you get together with a colleague and you need to run through a project quickly. The project is of short duration, and requires the creation of a set of "things." Pictured here is a Mission Kanban I created in about 3 minutes on the 19th of July when my collaborator and I needed to quickly populate the web site for my book with fairly uniform content.
The green list down the side represents specific blog posts that needed to be written. In blue and red across the top are the actions that needed to happen for each post. The blue tasks were mine, the red tasks were hers.
As we worked through each task, we would draw a box to show the one we were currently working on. A line through the box meant the task was completed and could be "pulled" into the next item in the value stream. (The value stream here is Draft -> Edit -> Accept -> Publish). Due to the directed nature of this project and the uniformity of tasks, we had a WIP of one. Each of us worked on one task until it was done, and then we'd move on to the next.
In a very simple pattern, this method establishes a value stream, limits WIP, assigns tasks, and provides a visual control for the project.