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On his blog, Succeeding With Agile, Mike Cohn put together a list of all the things that should be visible within the ideal agile workspace:

• Big Visible Charts
• Additional feedback devices
• Everyone on your team
• The sprint backlog
• The product backlog
• At least one big white board
• Someplace quiet and private
• Food and drink
• A window

I blogged about this before, but wanted to add some more points to the list:

• Be in line of sight with team members – highly effective and helps communication no end
• Big visible charts should be updatable in no more than a minute a day – these should run more or less on autopilot: anything that takes 10 minutes to prepare is a waste of your time and everyone elses

[Links]
The Ideal Agile Workspace | Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile®
Via @dailyscrum on Twitter.

[Further reading]
List of Scrum artifacts
Big visible charts – Ron Jeffries
Attempting to Achieve the Ideal Agile Workspace
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