I’ve read and heard a lot about using a physical agile board to manage software projects. The talented John Allison joined the ChallengePost team last week as our Lead Developer *crowd goes wild*. With his recommendation, we’re switching it up and trying something new. The image above is our agile board for this week’s sprint. Here’s what’s on it.
- User Stories are on white note cards
- Blockers are on yellow post-its
- Bugs are on pink notecards
- Blue Cards are column headings
- Team members have a picture / named notecard that represents them
We have 5 columns to organize our tasks
- Backlog (scoped to this sprint)
- In Progress
- Finished
- Accepted
- Done
So here’s how it all works:
A team member takes a story from the Backlog and moves it into In Progress and sticks their picture on it. Then, they start working on it. When they are done, they move it to Finished. This lets the product owner (me or Brandon) know it’s ready to be validated it and all going well, we’ll move it to Accepted. When the story is deployed to production, it moves in to Done.
Prior to trying the cork board, we used Pivotal Tracker with good success. Out of all online tools, it is by far the best.
However, John swears by the cork board for teams in the same location! After one day, I’m liking it. I’ll write another article after we’ve used it for a few months.
A cork board, a sharpie, and some note cards
I’ve read and heard a lot about using a physical agile board to manage software projects. The talented John Allison joined the ChallengePost team last week as our Lead Developer *crowd goes wild*. With his recommendation, we’re switching it up and trying something new. The image above is our agile board for this week’s sprint. Here’s what’s on it.
We have 5 columns to organize our tasks
So here’s how it all works:
A team member takes a story from the Backlog and moves it into In Progress and sticks their picture on it. Then, they start working on it. When they are done, they move it to Finished. This lets the product owner (me or Brandon) know it’s ready to be validated it and all going well, we’ll move it to Accepted. When the story is deployed to production, it moves in to Done.
Prior to trying the cork board, we used Pivotal Tracker with good success. Out of all online tools, it is by far the best.
However, John swears by the cork board for teams in the same location! After one day, I’m liking it. I’ll write another article after we’ve used it for a few months.