Our company culture is based on transparency. As a consequence, visibility and measurement tools are essential to us. In the past, we built several dashboards for Confluence, JIRA, Sonar, Jenkins, Nagios, etc., because dashboards are excellent at making things visible for everyone. The problem with them however has been that they would usually display information for only one target audience at a time.
We then built Walle, an information radiator, to give insight into all the work disciplines combined (development, test, support and systems management). The main objectives behind the build were: to gather all the relevant project information in one central place; to enable anyone to react instantly when needed, to make everyone involved feel responsible for the entire project.
This is the first in a series of summaries of our monthly “Techday” events. We organize them because we like to stay sharp and have fun. Check out our previous blog post about 
If you follow this blog you know by now that we are working on a new software product. It won’t be long before I lift a tip of the veil of what it is we are working on.