Quickies: sticky notes 2.0
Posted by Christophe on January 19, 2008
Post-it notes are possibly the best tool for agile teams. Versatile, cheap, simple. The result? Magnificent colorful interactive scrum boards.
The drawback? Post it notes are very easy but they can become overwhelming and don’t provide much help for managing large implementation across multiple teams.
Online scrum board management tools (rallydev, versionone etc) try to fill in the gap by providing dependency management, search capacity, burn down charts and more. While they definitively bring a lot of value, they also fail at keeping the team engaged. Nothing beats facing the physical board.
Researchers are about to bridge the gap with Quickies. The technology integrates RFID, Artificial Intelligence and ink recognition technologies can make it possible to create intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located, can send reminders and messages, and more broadly, can help us to seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds.
Flying cars by 2010? No, but finally something to be excited about!
Check out the video here.
Frank Sammi said
Hi Christophe,
This is really awesome. I can’t wait until this becomes commercially available! I’m an Agile enthusiast and one of the things I love about Agile is the use of sticky notes!
Until Quickies is in production, I found this iPhone app with helped me with my Agile Tasks. It’s called: uTrack.
Here is the link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/utrack-lite/id363486040
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