Comments on: Visual Management for Agile Teams

By: Zia

Zia — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:14:03 +0000

While yellow sticky displays on a cardboard may be acceptable to small low key production offices, it won’t be suitable for teams managing million dollar projects. Due to unstructured and mediocre nature, the PMI for one will never endorse it as one format for executing projects.

By: Zia

Zia — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:06:39 +0000

The VM is suitable format for factory settings where holding formal meetings would not be effective. So the workers standing in a corner can talks about the problems they experienced with their individual machines and tools. They can also talk about their good work e.g. produced more widgets today…

The VM may also be helpful for call centres operations where hundreds of call are received on problems of varying in nature. Individual teams can share their experiences and exchange views on how they handled the calls or how others would responds to certain situations.

The VM is of no particular use in IT teams supporting IT systems with usual types of problems. Nor is it suitable for stable office environment where people do the same thing day in day out.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:35:32 +0000

Great post….

Make it visible.

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By: yosi

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:05:49 +0000

Hi Xavier,

Very nice article. Thank you for sharing your insights.
I am working together with another company based in the Netherlands.
It is called TnP Visual Solutions. They are specialised in visual management for all sorts of things. Check the website http://www.visualworkplace.nl for some ideas. Any plans on visual management activities in Belgium ?

Regards, Patrick

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By: Syed Niaz

Syed Niaz — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:22:58 +0000

lovely article, very crisp and well presented, thanks a lot