AGILE IN ACTION

We continue to make our bullpen a more informative workspace . Today we relocated our planning boards to make room for our new 32" screen. This replacing our 18" monitor showing the cruisecontrol dashboard and selenium test runs. I want to get picture-in-picture working so that we can radiate other information at the same time.

To deliver working increments of software, it's not enough to show all the tests passing. You also want to know that each user story has a production-quality implementation. This is why knowing when you're done on a user story includes a mental check of the design and all the code. Some teams at Thoughtworks use a single information radiator to convey both the functional completeness of a user story and its implementation quality. Using both dimensions of a whiteboard, the x-axis represents the functional completeness and the y-axis represents the implementation quality. The story cards being developed in an iteration are placed on the whiteboard. A card is moved to the right as it becomes more functionally complete, and moved upwards as its implementation quality improves. I plan to reconfigure the Current Iteration area of my planning board to be like this. Reference: Alistair Cockburn on Communicating, Cooperating Teams .