As well as being an agile coach and scrum trainer, I’ve also dabbled in software development. A few weeks ago, I happened across an idea for a software application and I decided to use scrum to help me to create it. The experience reminded me why the location of the product backlog is so important.
Having this very discussion with a team of mine, yet again, today.
I think this is an excellent article on why Physical boards are so important, the 4 points at the end of why they still are best even in distributed teams is key.
My team recently started their journey into the world of Scrum and one of the first asks was for Virtual Tools / Electronic boards. “Thankfully”, management have messed about here which has forced the team to make the board work. As each sprint goes by they feel the need for electronic tool diminish as they realise they’ve working just fine with out them.