VISUAL MANAGEMENT
Xavier Quesada Allue

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
• Author of the Visual Management Blog
• Certified Scrum Coach
• From Argentina, lives in Belgium

WHY VISUALIZE?

”...half of the human brain is
devoted directly or indirectly to
vision..”
Professor Mriganka Sur
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

“BRAIN RULES”
JOHN MEDINA

WHAT CAN WE VISUALIZE?

INFORMATION

THINKING

SIGNS AND
SIGNALS

PROCESS

WORK

PROGRAMS,
PROJECTS,
FEATURES,
TASKS
...it all boils down to non-
repetitive work

VISUAL MANAGEMENT

TASKBOARDS

BUT NOT ALL
TASKBOARDS
ARE CREATED
EQUAL

SO...
LET’S BUILD SOME GOOD
TASKBOARDS

GUIDELINES
• Divide
yourself into teams
(max 8 teams).
• Each
team has to build their
own taskboard.

GUIDELINES
• Focuson quality, readability
and usability. Make them
look nice.
• Be creative.
• Butalso think about
process, not just aesthetics.

RULES
• Goal: build a basic taskboard. • We will simulate being in the
middle of a sprint. Look at
• You have four stories in the paper for WIP status
scope for this sprint. Each details.
story is divided into five
tasks.

BUILD
• Taskboardmust show all the
work in scope and its status
• Taskboardmust show who is
working on what

REVIEW
• Split
up into “presenters”
and “critics”
• Presenterswill stay to
defend the work you did
• Critics
will go review the
work of other teams.

ROUND 2
• Improve your taskboard
• Implement at least three
additional requirements

REVIEW ROUND 2
• Split
up into “presenters”
and “critics” again
• Explain
the three optional
requirements and whatever
you improved since round 1

WRAPUP
How would Xavier do it?

THANK YOU!
Please visit the
Visual Management Blog
http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement