Friday 9 September 2011

Information Radiators

A colleague of mine recently protested about our whiteboard and post-it note project board as he felt that we'd be much better served with an online solution so that team members who work from home could view and update any progress.

As much as this is true I argued that using a system to store progress information was effectively locking the project board and it's information away therefore making it much less useful.

A physical board sitting beside the team acts as an Information Radiator, pushing project information out to the team.   At a glance anyone can clearly see the status of the project, and any changes being made are immediatley visible as you can actually see when people update the board.

Having to access and log in to a system may sound easy enough but in practice these extra steps generally discourages a team from making updates to the board and if that happens then you lose all the advantages that a project board gives you.

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