Radiant Scrum (TM)
This title of this post is based on a discussion at my office. We were discussing the importance of information radiators and how to sue them to make information about how our teams are doing highly visible. We want that information to radiate out and be easily consumable. Information radiator is a term coined by Alistair Cockburn in his book, Agile Software Development . An Information Radiator is a display, often electronic, that makes information readily available. A good information radiator makes it very easy for people to consume the information. If the information is not easily consumable people will either ignore it or misinterpret the information. Not all information radiators are good. Information radiators can radiate useless information or worse yet, misinformation. This can happen when multiple unrelated charts are displayed together. The viewer will look for the relationship between the charts where none exists and start to draw potentially incorrect conclusions. A