Card colors
Blue for technical debt and engineering work.
Pink for defects.
Yellow for engineering work, e.g. setting up test boxes, configuring Cruisecontrol, Maven build and Selenium for cross-browser testing (generally we don’t get many of these cards because testing is implicit in everything we do).
(The single green card was for one-off special work that we needed a different color card for. We don’t need this color card anymore.)
The color stickers on the cards correspond to the columns on the planning board, which are also color coded. Some of the cards have lots of stickers on them because we develop the user stories by vertically slicing them. Each slice starts In Development (red column), and moves through a UI Review (black column) and a QA Review (blue column) before arriving at a Customer Preview (orange column). Here we get valuable feedback from our Customer before returning the card to ‘In development’ to start the next slice.
Here’s our story card template:
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More reasons why cards are so useful:
agile in a flash .