Imagining work: using physical space to visualise, plan and track work
summary
Argues that large physical visual walls — built with sharpies, super-sticky Post‑its, masking tape and brown paper or magic whiteboard sheets — make status, risks and priorities immediately readable and actionable: used on a 23‑initiative program with a 23-initiative dependency spider (string shows cross-initiative links), a progress board, bells of success milestones and a team happiness metric. Gives practical rules: WIP limits, blocked columns, photos for audit trails and even daily wall photos to create a time‑lapse; reports these setups increased stakeholder visibility and team engagement.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Agenda
- 3:27Why use visual techniques
- 3:58Why use walls
- 6:01Physical vs digital walls
- 7:50Realworld examples
- 8:19Types of visualisation
- 9:34Visual walls
- 10:07Workshop outputs
- 12:19Where to put your wall
- 13:26Dependency map
- 16:21Recommendations
- 17:54Techniques
- 19:19Examples
- 22:12Lost Client
- 23:12Group exercise
- 29:04Show priorities
- 33:20Share your wall
- 41:41Group collaboration
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