As I already described in Becoming a Visual Facilitator I’m training on my visual
The perfect opportunity occurred when I started on a new project that was supposed to use Scrum but didn’t have a physical Scrum board. The fact on its own wouldn’t pose a problem if the digital Scrum board worked. But it didn’t (and wouldn’t ever in the near future for organizational and political reasons). People hardly had a glimpse of how much of the sprint scope was already accomplished and how much had to be finished.
So here it was: My opportunity to not only establish a physical Scrum board but also to do it with the proper tools.
I took the design of the Scrum board I got to know first (which was not only fully accepted by its team but also fantastically working) and started playing around with it.
![](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Scrum-Board-Sheet-Experiments-1024x595.jpg)
After having played around with a dozen of marker and color combinations I ended up with the following markers:
- Story Title
Neuland No.One®, chisel nib 2-6 mm, 100 black - Story Complexity
Neuland No.One®, chisel nib 2-6 mm, 201 dark red - Story ID/Issue/Key
Neuland No.One® Metallic, chisel nib 2-6 mm, M105 blue, replaced by a custom Neuland No.One®, round nib empty marker filled with Neuland RefillOne Metallic M105 blue - Story Owner and Sub Task
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Neuland FineOne® Outliner, round nib 1mm
![](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LBB-Scrum-Board-1024x333.jpg)
![LBB Scrum Board Tools](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LBB-Scrum-Board-Tools-768x1024.jpg)
The introduction is a couple of months ago and the physical board is still used and was further improved which is great news.
![LBB Scrum Board Redesign](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LBB-Scrum-Board-Redesign-1024x424.jpg)
Later my old project asked me for help and to come back for a couple of months. So there it was again: Another opportunity to put to work what I learned so far.
The quest was obvious: The scrum board was not cleaned up, too small and needed a fresh look.
![](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/paydirekt-Scrum-Board-old-826x1024.jpg)
Therefore I extended the lanes, gave them nice labels in the corporate design as the
I also installed three sets of the above described marker setup on the Scrum board using MagneticBoxes for Neuland No.One® Whiteboard so the right markers are always at hand when a sheet must be written.
People can also simply detach a MagneticBox, take it to their working place, write what ever they need to write and put it back at the board.
![](https://bkahlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/paydirekt-Scrum-Board-new-1024x767.jpg)
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