Kanban Chart

This week we created a Kanban Chart and inventory management system used in manufacturing specifically lean production. We learned this in HL and decided to take what we have learned and applied it to our CAS project as a way to organize our process and layout the next steps to the completion of our project. Firstly we organized the chart into four sections, To-Do, W.I.P (work in progress), waiting on lesson and done. The basic three sections, to-do, work in progress and done were necessary to layout major steps of the project but I added waiting for lessons because I may be prepared for a lesson/conference and are just waiting to complete the lesson. The next step was to write all the current and future steps necessary to our project. The first few steps that I wrote out were all things that I am working on at the moment. Such as meetings with Allan to organize the first budgeting conference, find a teacher for supervision of my math tutoring, and find the students who are coming to math help. Then I moved to more general things that I have to do the rest of the trimester such as, laying out the content for future conferences, meeting with experts for next conferences and planning the final large budgeting conference. This is essential as it is a visualization of my CAS experience and helps me develop my ability to plan and initiate projects. This chart will be more helpful for me than something like a gantt chart as it is more flexible to changes in dates due to a variation of reasons and flexibility is more important than ever with us being mid pandemic. This chart shall also help me with my development of attributes of the learner profile like communication as it lays out who I need to communicate with. Overall I believe this will help me complete my CAS project as the steps I need to take are written down instead of them floating around my head, making me responsible for my actions and actually following through.