Translations:Calendario Niko/1/en
The Niko calendar (also called Niko-niko calendar or happiness calendar) is a visual tool for monitoring team members' mood or satisfaction with their work. Each day, each person indicates how they felt using a simple emoticon: happy, neutral, or dissatisfied.
It was proposed by Akinori Sakata, and its name comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia niko niko, which represents a smile. It aligns with the attention agility pays to team well-being as a driver of sustainable throughput.
How to use it
It is placed in a visible spot in the work area—physical or digital—alongside the team's other indicators (burndown chart, kanban board...). Each day, each team member adds a sticker or draws one of the three possible states: