As our team adds more to our Confluence Whiteboards, I’ve noticed things can get a bit cluttered or hard to follow.
Does anyone have tips for keeping large or complex boards readable and organized? Are there patterns or layouts that have worked well for you (e.g. color coding, sections, naming conventions)?
Would love to hear what’s worked for others! 💙
Yes, it is possible, but IMO messy.
I've used this to "archive" done columns in our kanban board so the main board can be clean, but we still have a record of cards moved to done at the end of each sprint.
These are both zoomed out pages, but firstly most of my pages have a complete or viewing side of the board and then a working side. I usually disguish these with lines but depending on how big your whiteboard is you can use shapes and even put text in the spaces like I did with the risks on the right of the colourful one.
I use that line as an identifier on whats complete (left) to whats being worked on (right) in that space
But the other one was a live working document and we went by categories in order as the different groups and used the swimlanes to keep the different teams organized but moving in the right direction. we continued to co-ordinate the same colours for each team so its easy to see what you're supposed to be reading.
But with the process maps we need swimlanes so to separate the colours we do a white background and another colour behind it so we can choose the size of the border.
We do something similar with our retros and other boards, but colour coordination and borders are my go to options for separating a board.
Hopefully that helps some? All my boards are different but stick to the same methods of organisation keeping zones of work essentially and making sure you can see where you need to go when zoomed out.
There are some great tips, thank you @Christine Towns! 💙