![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a growth-minded individual with a strong affinity for Marketo and Salesforce, and are excited about the idea of improving the efficiency of global marketing campaigns and honing your skills in marketing operations, the Marketing Automation Specialist is a great opportunity for you! If you are located in a city where we have an office, you are welcome to work from the office on a voluntary basis. Our Scrum Master is responsible for keeping our Jira task board up to date.Our team enjoys hybrid/remote flexibility and we offer employees a generous WFH budget to help create a productive and ergonomic WFH environment. It can alert a team to a situation that needs corrective action – it doesn’t tell you what to do, it just displays the facts, we have to do the rest.It is kept up to date – it’s simple enough that the team actually uses it and updates it and it reflects what the team is working on.You don’t have to go find it, it’s just always there waiting for someone to look at it.Solutions IQ describes an information radiator well: Jira and other online tools are information refrigerators which fall short. Physical task boards are information radiators. “ Hey don’t worry, Jira has a task board that works the same way” you say? Physical task boards will become a rarity, a thing of the past. We just won’t meet in person anymore, at least not anytime soon. Yes, we will progress forward and yes we are all going to be OK. Perhaps I am just an old guy being nostalgic – thank you for humoring me. Most of the math I took was learned listening to old Genesis (circa Peter Gabriel) including “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”. We had rooms that were optimized to feature the sound and I did most of my undergraduate studying listening to Pink Floyds “The Wall”. It was something you enjoyed, savored even. We always listened to the entire album, like a ritual. There was something wonderful about putting an album on a turntable, cleaning it, moving the needle over, and letting that first side play before flipping it over to play the other. Listening to music then was an entirely different experience. I sure wish I had some of these albums back: That was before I upgraded (?) to CDs and eventually Apple Music. That jumpstarted my album collection and eventually, I had hundreds of albums. When I was 16 or so I signed up for the Columbia record of the month club and got 12 albums for a penny. It kinda reminds me of another lost technology, that of the album. Some teams actually clapped and high-fived each other at these moments as they shared in the feeling of accomplishment. And especially if the sticky had been stuck in “In Progress” for a while and then it got moved to “Done”! Teams usually saved those big moves until the daily standup to allow for a little drama. Those of you who have used physical task boards are probably aware of the feelings evoked when moving a sticky from one column to the next. There is something about the tactile nature of physical task boards that is engaging. They loved seeing all the work of the team in one place, and more importantly, being able to see progress (or lack of it) from day to day. The boards we created were not at all pretty, but they were functional and the client teams loved them. I’ve been a huge champion of physical task boards since Tom Cagley and I created some very crude ones for use at a client in 2011. ![]() And with it will go the physical task board. As the COVID-19 pandemic grows worldwide and in particular in the US, I can’t help but wonder if our ability to meet face to face will become a thing of the past. ![]()
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