ScrumBlocker – Unleash Your Team [Feedback]
get.scrumblocker.comHey all,
I'm currently in the process of developing a service that will visualize all of your project blockers on a single dashboard, visible by all team members and that will also broadcast those blockers instantly to all team members, and likewise let them all know when the blocker has been resolved.
The idea sparked from becoming increasingly frustrated with tickets being blocked for various reasons and while those tickets were all visible in our project management tools, not all team members were regularly checking the board or noticing that things were blocked. It becomes increasingly difficult when various people are not working at the same location.
I'm looking for some feedback on the idea. Is this something you've struggled with in your team? How did you solve it? Would a tool like this be useful?
Cheers, Tom
It's hard to provide feedback on something that hasn't been built. My initial response to the idea is that a tool that moves the problem to 'meat space' is less ideal than one that automates fixing it and probably not as good as concepts like continuous integration where the person who 'broke the build' knows shortly after committing.
To put it another way, layering a tool on top of a middling process is less desirable than fixing it. Anyway, hope there's a prototype soon.
Good luck.