Dave Nicolette discusses the tendency for novice teams to feel that maintaining information radiators in their team area represents duplicate effort on top of keeping their project management tool up to date. In reality, the two types of tools have quite different purposes. Let’s clarify the purpose of each and the differences between them.
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True or False
If it shows me that immediate action is
needed without interrupting flow, it’s a
radiator.
If I have to initiate a context switch
event, turn my attention to a special
system, log in, and search for
information, it’s a vault.
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Type of information Action or reference?
Architectural standards
Sprint goal statement
Blocker on story
Coding standards
Pull policy on state
Lists of codes
Acceptance criteria detail
Current state of story
Project budget information
Sprint burndown
History of stories in project
Current build status
Team Niko Niko calendar
Contact info of dependent teams