Extract from the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar
A single team remote wall is a simple technique to reintroduce the team wall virtually. We recommend that distributed teams adopt this approach; one of the things we hear from teams who moved to remote working is that they miss having the physical team wall.
This was a single place where all the various story cards, tasks, status and progress could be displayed, acting as an information radiator and hub for the team.
The wall acted as an integration point with the actual data being stored in different systems. As teams have become remote, they've had to revert to looking into the individual source systems and getting an "at a glance" view of a project has become very difficult.
While there might be some overhead in keeping this up-to-date, we feel the benefits to the team are worth it. For some teams, updating the physical wall formed part of the daily "ceremonies" the team did together, and the same can be done with a remote wall.
In my experience, the online team wall has become that very rallying point every member makes uses of and loves. Often, the integration of other tools like jira is better in an online team wall because it’s easier to use and organise. Business Analysts can have all their metric tracking and organisatiion abstracted back in Jira and the rest of the team who only need to see the story title, who’s assigned and what stage it’s at, can see that here on the wall.
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