In response to the challenges of keeping our whiteboard up-to-date (see Do You Have Your Sticky Buddy? and Return of the Sticky Buddy), we're introducing the use of a digital whiteboard application using a large LCD display. This is an experiment to see if we can get all the advantages of the whiteboard and its positive effect on collaborative working and ease of access to information, while coupling it to the accuracy of information tracked in Team Foundation Server (our electronic tracking system.)

Darren Davis created this application using the API on to Team Foundation Server. This application should eliminate the need for Sticky Buddies as remote workers will be able to update work items electronically via VPN. Once, we have the electronic board in regular use, I'll report back on how it is going. We're introducing it initially on only one project. We'll continue to run the manual/analog sticky note whiteboards on other projects with parallel electronic tracking via TFS. If the electronic version proves a success then we'll switch over entirely and sticky buddies will be history. Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, Lean, Kanban, Software+Engineering, Team+Foundation+server, Visual+Studio+Team+System, VSTS, TFS