Development Teams Using Note Cards: 20th Century Here Today
Lee Fischman, Galorath Guru attended the PMI conference last week. He sent an email during the conference concerned about note cards as a project management approach. Lee sent the following for publication:
“These Agile teams that use note cards claim all sorts of wonderful
benefits from them, like seeing the entire project’s status on a wall,
and solid ownership of tasks. In fact, case tracking systems like JIRA
and Fogbugz do all that too, plus lots more such as sorting, metrics,
etc. I guess one reason people like note cards is that they are so
tangible. But using them reminds me of people who print out their
emails – soooo 19th century. Note cards are even worse, because they
are hand-written. Agile proponent Alistair Cockburn called these
“Information Radiators” but there doesn’t seem to be strong theoretical
support for the idea of using note cards over online systems. It’s not
that the entire Agile community feels like they have to do these things
by hand, because Rally, VersionOne, XPlanner and other vendors do offer popular tools to automate project management. Apparently other people agree with the notion that note cards are, uh, not optimal”
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Actually, the title should have been “Sooo 19th Century” Note cards are a triumph of fad over function.