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?
Scrum teams and organizations often understand why it is important to release frequently, or "ship fast". But knowing that it is important and actually doing it are different things.
One of the areas where this tension is quite evident is in the struggle between "the best way to implement a feature" and the "fastest way to implement a feature". Or "the simplest version of the product" and the "best possible version of the product". Many Scrum teams get stuck in a vicious cycle where they keep adding more features, bells, and whistles before a new release is acceptable. But each cycle increases the risk that the team is potentially wasting their efforts on unwanted or unnecessary additions.
We designed this workshop for teams that are struggling to break-down a large feature, or even an entire product, into smaller items that can be delivered to stakeholders individually. You can use it either at the start of development for a new product or during development.
How does it work?
The PDF outlines a detailed 5-step tried-and-tested 100-minute workshop that relies on Liberating Structures to engage and unleash your team. The string is designed with virtual teams in mind and includes:
- Celebrity Interview
- Min Specs
- Impromptu Networking
- 15% Solutions
This string of Liberating Structures is feasible from 4 participants and onward.
What do you receive?
- A 10-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 (such as Zoom, GotoWebinar, and Teams). 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.