Anyone can be a great visual thinker! (…and what comes off of it) by Rimi (Sagorika) Datta Digital Business Analyst at the NZAA One of my favourite animated films of all time is Ratatouille, and in that, a famous chef had a book which roughly translates in English to be: …
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Lessons Learnt with Big Room Planning / Program Increment Planning – What is it?
Lessons Learnt with Big Room Planning “Big Room Planning” – What’s the hype? Is it the latest “buzzword”? Is Big Room Planning for me and my organization? As a team of Agile coaches who have facilitated or observed 5 of these events in the past 12 months, we wanted to …
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How Covid-19 Wiped Away Our Big Room Planning (BRP)
Virtual, Virtual, Virtual We’ll follow-up with an article shortly about the basics of BRP and lessons learnt through our experiences facilitating and observing 5 events over the past 12-months. There was a greater impetus for this article as many people have expressed an interest in our virtual BRP format. Although …
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Crazy 8’s Ideation – A3 Template
What are Crazy Eights Crazy Eights is a structured idea generation technique often used in design sprints. A design sprint is a timeboxed (single or multi-day) workshop where participants unpack a problem, diverge on ideas to solve the problem, then converge on the solution(s). Instructions Print out the PDF template …
Virtual Meeting Tips
Working in multiple companies amidst the CoVid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the effect of badly run remote meetings on doing good work. We wrote this handy guide to help one of our clients through a 2-day whole-company work-from-home trial. Hope this guide is useful for others faced with working remotely at …
How to Run a Sharp Stand-Up
What is the Daily Scrum? The Daily Scrum / huddle / stand-up. It has a million different names. The purpose of this meeting is akin to the rugby metaphor of a reset of the game. Think of it as a daily reset, because this is where you set the scene …
Chorei
What is Chorei Chorei literally means “morning ritual” in Japanese. It is a practice that happens every morning where a company comes together to go through the plan for the day, and acknowledge it’s people. The Japanese have actually been doing this activity before Agile was born. Spicing up your …
Agile Leadership
The Role of an Agile Leader in Self-Managing Teams With a shift towards self-managing teams, the role of the leader adapts from a delegation model to a servant leadership model of support, coaching, empowerment and joining the dots. Example Questions an Agile Leader Would Ask Here are some examples of …
Workshop Facilitation Tips
Here are some tips for facilitating workshops. Preparation is key! General Workshop Facilitation Approach In general, the approach to facilitating any workshop (be it a design sprint, problem mapping, or planning) is: Understand the outcomes so you start with the end in mind. Create a clear agenda. I like to …
Self care for Professionals
Businesses can’t run without people, right? Modern Agile principles highlight the idea you need to “Make People Awesome” and if we take that seriously, we have to look at the mental and physical health of our teams. As a manager, a scrum master or agile coach, it’s your role to …