Agile Post It Board

And if possible get a neutral third party to help facilitate the meeting.

Agile post it board.

The basic board should look something like this. Last line of the agile manifesto. I suggest only making one sticky per person readily available. Place each of the headers in the order mentioned in a row at the top of your wall.

Make your meetings brainstorms and projects better. The wall not only gets cluttered but people will stop updating the walls. It was a great reminder of how the physical and interactive can engage and delight and of the importance of making it easy to interact with. Place the photo stickies on the edge of the board to indicate team members available for tasks.

On the page board paper or whiteboard create three columns with the headings what we did well what we can do better and actions. Create individual headers for each of the following. In this post i explain what scenarios and storyboards are how they can be used effectively in an agile context and how they relate to user stories. There are a few who have reported stress due to the cluttering of wall due to unplanned growth of post its on the wall.

Kanban boards use cards columns and continuous improvement to help technology and service teams commit to the right amount of work and get it done. For in person teams find a whiteboard or large paper and set out post it notes and markers in a meeting room. If you have photos for each team member attach them to small sticky notes or put post it glue on the back. That is while there is value in the items on the right we value the items on the left more.

However as projects teams and agile practices themselves grow ever larger the constraints provided in the methods become too simple. Scenarios when we started to work on the re launch of our website for instance i wrote the following scenario. Begin your agile scrum by finding a wall that is accessible to all group members and add a post it meeting chart. The passion for post it notes and sharpies that agile purists operate with is enough make you think the founding members owned shares in 3m the company that owns post it notes.

On the back of the board there were some more traditional activities going on collecting suggestions on post it notes as well as quadrant mapping feelings about various neighbourhood facilities. Agile project methods are a great way to improve your project visualization they provide the basic rules of the board setup task organization and separation as well as a general sense of what is going on. Too many post it notes. In the long term projects over use of post its leads to what i am terming as post it noise.

Large scale and long term agile projects.