Minutes to Pin It: How to Get Your Whole Team Agreeing
What if your team could share new ideas and make unanimous decisions in minutes?
Agile teams need to create and agree on many things such as a definition of done, a sprint plan, and what changes they’ll try in the next sprint based on the most recent retrospective.
How often have you participated in a meetings where few decisions were made? Or where the the loudest person in the room made most of the suggestions and dominated your team’s decision making?
In this interactive workshop, we will practice coming up with new ideas using everybody’s suggestions and making decisions that the whole team agrees on.
Learn and practice techniques such as Fist-of-Five, Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol and Shared Visioning with Lego.
Make group decisions faster, more aligned with the whole team, and more likely to result in follow-through.
Outline/Structure of the Workshop
We will cover the techniques as group exercises. For each part, there will be a quick shared debrief. Throughout the session, participants will learn through practice.
NOTE to organizers:
I have presented these techniques to 100+ people at a time at AgileTO Meetups.
The flow will likely look something like this:
0:00 Intro
0:05 Individual Build with Lego
0:15 Team Build with Lego
0:25 Fist-of-Five Consensus Check
0:30 Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol
0:40 Team Rebuild with Lego
0:50 Q&A
Learning Outcome
- Practice techniques that get your whole team sharing ideas and agreeing on how to move forward.
- See how consensus check and a more structured approach to bringing in outliers can accelerate group decision making and produce outcomes with strong buy-in.
Target Audience
People who work in teams and wish to make unanimous decision more quickly. For example, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team Members, Team Leads and Managers.
Video
Links
I led a Shared Visioning activity with Lego at the AgileTO July meetup. See photos and reviews here.
I demonstrated the Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol at the AgileTO May Meetup. See the announcement here.
In April, I attended Agile Games 2016, and at a break, I asked Richard Kasperowski, author of "The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness", "Where can I find a video about the Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol?" He said, "Let's make one!" And so here it is.
Here is a link to a recording of me introducing the guest speaker Sue Johnston at the AgileTO May Meetup.
Cherifa
Paul J. Heidema
Melanie Paquette
Jesus Mendez
Jade Stephen
