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Scrum Task Board — Offline or Online?
Scrum is often associated with a task board or a physical wall of work. Stickers all around, from floor to ceiling, organized in columns.
Looks great! But how effective is that for Scrum?
If you are on the co-located team, and have a complex project, which Scrum as a framework suits the most, you’ll most likely will have several types of stickies:
- high-level product backlog items;
- low-level product backlog items with acceptance criteria formulated;
- bugs.
High-level items should be totally fine being written on a sticky. There is not so much data to fit to the card.
Low-level items will struggle a bit. You’ll use the other side of the sticky to fit all the information in, or you’ll stick other stickies to extend the work area.
Bugs usually have specific description on how to recreate them. Screenshots, videos are very helpful, too. Totally unsuitable for a little sticky.
Next, how will you go back to a particular feature and its description? In a complex project, you have so many features that you can’t rely on your memory.
The solution is to use online scrum boards with a history capability.
