Obeya Room
An Obeya room (also known as a situation room, command center or control room) is a centralized meeting space where project teams and stakeholders can co-locate and visually communicate project activities.
The idea of a Obeya room is to physically gather the entire team into a ‘single location’ to facilitate communication, problem-solving, risk mitigation and status reporting. The single location can be physical, virtual or some combination of the two based on the specifics of the organization’s structure.
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Obeya Room Visualizations
Obeya room visualizations make goals, progress, and problems visible at a glance.
Typical visuals include:
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🎯 Goals & strategy: Vision, OKRs, target vs actual.
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📊 Performance metrics: Quality, delivery, cost, safety, customer KPIs.
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🗺️ Projects & plans: Roadmaps, milestones, dependencies.
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⚙️ Problems & actions: Issue logs, A3s, countermeasures.
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👥 Team & capacity: Roles, workload, pulse checks.
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🔁 Continuous improvement: Trends, Kaizen ideas, lessons learned.
They use color codes, charts, and boards to enable fast, collective decision-making and alignment.