The marvel of low-tech

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What's the best way of tracking progress and while doing so, motivating your team? This question has been raised several times in the APERTIF room. And now, thanks to Marcel, we have the ultimate solution!

In the dynamic development environment of APERTIF we need a flexible issue tracker and progress monitoring tool. We use Redmine for this purpose and while it serves us well, if you don't look actively at it you don't know what the status of the project is.

(OK, we could keep our nice big TV screen turned on the whole day and our Redmine task list displayed there. However, such a suggestion does not go down well when you have two thirds of the ASTRON Sustainability Committee sitting in the APERTIF room.)

So what we did was rescue a lonely whiteboard, get some insulation tape and sticky notes in as many colours as we could find and voila! We are proud to present our "scrum board" which is on continuous display in the APERTIF room, does not consume an ounce of energy and is more colourful than Redmine could ever dream of.