What happens when we start a project and it is honestly overtaken by events?

We start a project in good faith, and then, because context changes, we have to set it aside. It’s work-in-progress, so what do we do? The project isn’t done; we will likely come back to it, but it could be weeks or even months before we touch it again.

These projects are limbo projects. It’s unclear when there will be progress on them. We only know that we’ve started them and that they are no longer our priority. We are moving the project from being active to being just another option that may or may not be exercised in the future.

Some people who are, shall we say, really into their Personal Kanban will lose sleep over this. But one word of (hopefully) enlightenment—Personal Kanban is more about understanding our work than it is getting specific things done.

So, we now understand that we have a project that is either in limbo or getting close to limbo.

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