Save valuable time with our do-it-yourself workshops. Each workshop contains a fully prepared string of Liberating Structures to help your team use Scrum more effectively. People who support our mission through patreon.com can download all digital content for free. This benefit starts from $5 USD/month.
How does this help your team?
Whenever you're in the middle of developing a product, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters. Are we spending time on the features that provide the most value? Which features do we need to creatively reinvent or expand in order to move our product forward? What are things we should focus on in the upcoming period?
It's important to continuously discuss these questions together with your stakeholders. Especially, because due to the complex nature of software development, more is unknown than known. No matter how much time you spend with your stakeholders at the start, you'll always gain new ideas while developing the product. This goes for both the team *and* stakeholders. So it's important to have a close collaboration and share ideas, insights, and assumptions.
With this workshop, you make the current state of your product transparent, inspect what this means, and identify improvements to give product development a boost. Ideally, you run this workshop together with your stakeholders. For example, during the Sprint Review.
The exercise is built on the powerful Liberating Structure Ecocycle Planning. Ecocycle Planning can look overwhelming, but just give it a try and let the structure do the heavy lifting.
It's important to continuously discuss these questions together with your stakeholders. Especially, because due to the complex nature of software development, more is unknown than known. No matter how much time you spend with your stakeholders at the start, you'll always gain new ideas while developing the product. This goes for both the team *and* stakeholders. So it's important to have a close collaboration and share ideas, insights, and assumptions.
With this workshop, you make the current state of your product transparent, inspect what this means, and identify improvements to give product development a boost. Ideally, you run this workshop together with your stakeholders. For example, during the Sprint Review.
The exercise is built on the powerful Liberating Structure Ecocycle Planning. Ecocycle Planning can look overwhelming, but just give it a try and let the structure do the heavy lifting.
How does it work?
The PDF outlines a detailed step-by-step 120-minute workshop that relies on Liberating Structures to engage and unleash your team. The string is designed with virtual teams in mind and includes:
- 1-2-4-ALL
- Ecocycle Planning
- 15% Solutions
What do you receive?
- An 11-page full-color guide (PDF).
- We take you through the flow of the string in great detail. Not only do we explain all the steps involved, but we also explain why they are happening. This should make it easier to design your own strings in the future.
- The instructions support all virtual collaboration tools where you can create breakouts or separate channels occasionally.
- You can set up an additional virtual whiteboard in a tool like Mural, Google Slides, or Miro if you prefer.
- The PDF outlines additional resources and useful reading, both to prepare and to distribute afterward.
More inspiration
- Get our book the "Zombie Scrum Survival Guide";
- Explore our paper "10 Powerful Experiments to Overcome Zombie Scrum"
- Read our whitepaper where we explain the Scrum framework, and its principles and values, in our own words.