Now THIS is a War Room
In the Agile community, a war room refers to a team room where developers work, customer meetings take place, and all projected related information is displayed. It is supposed to maximize communication and transparency into the health of the project.
I think one sign of a healthy agile project is evidence of some good fun. These are pictures taken from a war room at the bank where I am currently wrapping up my near six year tenure. These guys have obviously taken the war room to a whole new level.
Update: It turns out that this was a clever prank by Rob. He explains the context in his blog post. Knowing the team, which does like to have fun, I am guessing that they will keep their new little green team members as a permanent fixture of their war room.
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But you never would fly the helicopter from ThinkGeek with us in the team room…. http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/91d2/
Dear Mr. War Room Project Manager,
I apologize for not flying the helicopter in the war room before, but I was afraid that I would seriously maim your team mates and risk lowering the team’s velocity…:-). I will definitely peak my head in on Friday (my last day) and give it a whirl.
Only took me an hour to set up, take pictures and send out the email. Of course it was after work while everyone was out…
Ah…the plot thickens. The army men were actually set up as a prank by a developer from the other team. Inter-team rivalry…even more fun…
http://geekswithblogs.net/robz.....-Room.aspx
It appears that the user story didn’t pass User Acceptance Testing…
http://geekswithblogs.net/robz.....spx#143144