The office whiteboard is a genuinely good idea, right up until someone leans on it or the cleaner does their job too well.
The office whiteboard, covered in half-erased job names and arrows nobody remembers the meaning of, is one of the most quietly beloved pieces of small business infrastructure - and one of the most fragile. One accidental wipe, one team member who reads it differently to everyone else, and half the shared understanding of "what's happening this week" goes with it.
What the whiteboard is actually trying to do
At its core, it's a shared, visual, team-wide view of current work - which is a genuinely good instinct. The problem is the medium, not the idea.
The same idea, minus the fragility
A central work board, filterable across the whole team's jobs and tasks, keeps the "glance and know what's happening" usefulness of a whiteboard without the risk of someone's elbow undoing a week of planning.
The verdict
Keep the whiteboard for scribbling ideas if you like. Just don't let it be the only record of what's actually happening this week.