Use of colors for your tasks: To color or not to color?

The use of a physical board in Scrum has the advantage of using post-it notes for the tasks needed to get stories done. While you have a multi-disciplinary team, these tasks are of different types of work;

  • You probably need some documentation writing to explain to the end-user how they should use the product.
  • You may need some testing of the product that you deliver
  • You probably also need to write some code
  • There might be some database work required
  • And maybe even some analyzing, some meetings, some support or maintenance work, some review and some demo preparation.

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