We use magnetic
planning boards . When a pair
starts work on a story card they take the card away to their
workstation, but when they return the card to the
planning board they often forget
where it was located. The coloured dot on the card indicates which
column it was in (Not Started, In Development, UI Review, QA Test
Review, Customer Preview, Done), but they don't remember the
vertical position. This is a problem because the story cards are
arranged vertically in business value order, with the highest
business value card at the top of the board.
To overcome this we used personalised magnetic placeholders to
occupy the space left by the story card. The magnets were in the
shape of a running man (of sorts) logo and we glued team members
faces to these. However, due to a global rebranding exercise, we
couldn't get hold of enough of these magnets for the entire team.
In his blog post about
build-o-matic and the visibility of
the build results ,
Ivan Moore recalled using
South Park Studio to create pictures of
everyone on the team for use on the
planning board . Great idea! I
remember seeing links to
South Park Studio circulating some months back.
So I had each team member create a character of someone else on the
team. This was lots of fun. I followed Ivan's description and
printed the pictures out in colour, laminated them but I stuck
magnetic squares to the backs instead. You've seen the
team on the wall . Now meet the
team on the planning board.
Saturday, 11 November 2006
Team on the planning board
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