AGILE PROJECT TRACKING

Information Radiators

Agile has a practice called ‘informative workspace’ which is similar to war room of the traditional project team, where the team is displaying product backlogs, release backlogs, iteration backlogs which are usually in the form of story cards or task cards on the wall. Other graphs and charts prepared by the team is also being pasted on the wall which are sometimes called ‘information radiators’ or ‘visible big charts’.

There is no hard and fast rule for the information radiators and the team displays the items, whatever they feel is useful for them and the execution of the projects.

Self-assessment

The beauty of the information radiators lie in the fact that these help in creating the self-correcting team who can assess their team's progress themselves and then take necessary corrective action through the team discussion. All the charts and graphs that are mentioned below are made so intuitive that each member will be able to use those for assessing the team's current performance, remaining work, required progress rate, etc.