The Lazy Faire

Iteration Board

We’re still working the kinks out of our “agile living” system here at The Lazy Faire.  One of the things that quickly became clear during the last iteration was that having our goals posted online simply didn’t give them enough visibility.  It was too much of an effort to get online and review the plan.  To remedy this, I installed a 3′x2′ corkboard in our bedroom hallway, where we’d walk past it every day.  I divided it into three sections: one for finished projects, one for the current iteration, and one for the upcoming iteration.  I also bought a stack of small sticky notes.  These we use to tag each active project with a “next action”.  When we finish a project’s next action, we can quickly slap a new next action onto the card, and so on until the project is finished.

This gives us the ability to see at a glance where we stand with regard to our goals for the current three-week period.  It also gives us an easy way to start incrementally planning the next iteration.  So far it has been working well.

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