Improving Project Communication with Virtual Team Boards

User Stories are an important artifact in agile projects. Good understanding of user stories is crucial for project success. Distributed software teams rely on tools as a means for their communication about user stories. Current tools, however, fix the structure and visualization of stories and thereby limit potential information flow. We propose a concept that enables the teams to decide by themselves how they want to visualize their set of user stories. We want to investigate the use of the concept, its efficiency and the applicability to agile distributed teams.