2. Work in progress limits
The X cards or the physical
space delimited by the black
horizontal lines define the WIP
limits.
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3. The card key
Yellow index cards are stories
Blue index cards are defects
Pink index cards are technical debt
Orange stickies are blockers
Pink stickies are defects on stories
Blue stickies are queries that may turn into
defect cards
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4. Avatars
Each of the team members
have two Matt Groening or
Seth MacFarlane characters
that they put on the cards
they are working on.
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5. Exit Criteria
The green cards define the
exit criteria, what needs to be
done in order for the card to
progress.
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6. Blocker
Blocker stickies are applied to
cards that are blocked. The
sticky will include the card
number, blocker reason, the
start and end date
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7. Defect
When a defect is found to
reoccur on a defect card an
orange sticky is attached. This
has the defect description, the
card number with the defect,
the start and end date.
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8. Improvement Tasks
Every fortnight the team get
together for a retrospective, the
improvement items they agree to
work on are attached to the side
of the board to help the team
focus on them.
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10. Created
The team backlog. No
detailed acceptance
criteria has been defined
at this stage.
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11. Ready for design
analysis
Prioritised cards that will be
worked on during the next
sprint. They may contain some
acceptance criteria at this
stage.
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12. Design analysis
Where any necessary
design is completed and
acceptance criteria is
fully defined.
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26. Monitored
Cards that may have been highlighted
as containing infrequent errors are
placed in the monitored section until
the team are satisfied that the defect
is resolved.
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27. New Defects
New defects that are
discussed and prioritised
at the team stand up.
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