Post-Its Voladores

A few days ago, in the Agile Latin America Community (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foro-agiles/message/1738), the Flying Post-Its topic was discussed: they fall down, they fly, etc. from ScrumBoards or TaskBoards.

The recommendations were several of different kinds, i.e:

  • the usage of “super sticky” Post-Its,
  • Scotch Magic tape,
  • UHU Tac bar
  • Magnetic boards.

In my last 2 experiences applying Scrum on delivery teams we tried using cork boards, regular post-its and Push Pins supporting them. The first implementation of this kind raised by chance; we were waiting for the arrival of the regular board and in the meantime, using easel-pads (Fig.1). Due to the delay in the delivery of the regular board, we made use of a cork board that wasn’t being used at all, we started attaching the post-its to it, but they immediately start falling down. We rapidly used Push pins to attach them to the cork board, preventing them to fall down (Fig.2).

By doing this we found out 2 benefits, apart from avoiding flying post-its: 1) being able to attach a big amount of post-its with a single push pin (Fig.3), using less space (ie. in the “pending” section), and 2) using different colors of push pins for each team member (Fig.4), making it easy to identify the person working on each post-it.

References:

Fig.1: Pizarra de Rota-folio
Fig.1: Easel Pad board @ Accenture – SCM Team
Fig.2: Convertida en Pizarra de Corcho

Fig.2: Cork Board @ Gorricho

Fig.3: User Story + Tasks en Sección de "Entregados"

Fig.3: User Story + Tasks in "Delivered" section @ Gorricho

Fig.4: Cada Miembro un Color.

Fig.4: Each member one Color