Category: Meeting Facilitation

  • Agile Retrospective with LEGO® StrategicPlay®

    Lucky I am, because I attended “StrategicPlay FUNdamentals on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™” about 2 years ago. (Read my post on it here.) My company was unbelievable and invested in the “Identity and Landscape Kit” afterwards and I had the chance to do a number of LEGO Serious Play (LSP) Workshops since (HR team, UX team,…

  • Retrospective activity: Significance Story

    Remind team members in a retrospective of the significance and meaningfulness of their jobs. After some bafflement they could realize again that their jobs are important and do create value. This Monday I was inspired by the following tweet: What’s a quick and effective way to motivate employees?buff.ly/WQmTVh — Eric Barker (@bakadesuyo) February 4, 2013…

  • A Kanban Team Retrospective Activity

    Although Kanban does not prescribe retrospectives (nor any other mandatory meeting) all our Kanban teams are doing retrospectives on a regular basis. As a facilitator of a retrospective you should try to create an awareness of why things went well or not so well and let the team discuss issues that hopefully lead to improvement…

  • Learning Playfully: Kanban Lead Time, Spectral Analysis Chart, Service Level Agreement

    Some team members are at war with Kanban metrics (and probably other metrics): What are Lead and Cycle Time for? What does a Spectral Analysis Chart (SAC) show? Why should we care at all about a Service Level Agreement (SLA)? (Especially when there are so many dependencies with other teams.) You can always quote David…

  • “Sexy Not-So-Sexy Tasks” Retrospective Activity

    In one of the last retrospectives a team member complained about the “not very sexy” tasks the team had to do. Well, we all know that life is not all beer and skittles. Nevertheless I think, the team member was actually pointing out, that the “sexiness” of tasks can have impact on the general motivation…

  • Check-In Activity for Agile Retrospectives

    Fortunately retrospectives are already a standard at our company now. Not only our developers teams, but also our sales team, our team assistents and as of late also our management (surprisingly, the last.. :)) have regular retrospectives. Because it has become standard to have retrospectives there is also the chance of falling into a dull…

  • Job or Joy & The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

    Some weeks ago I was asked to facilitate the warm-up for our management offsite. It was the first offsite for this group of people as there had been some changes in the management lately. I thought it would be a good idea to start with “Job or Joy” and then raise the participant’s awareness of…

  • 6-3-5 brainwriting, 2020 Vision & NUF Test

    In the last weeks I facilitated three sessions for our Sales Team in which I mixed up or combined different creative methods: 6-3-5 brainwriting, 2020 Vision and NUF Test. The goal was to create different ranked lists with answers to the question “How can we increase our total revenue?” 6-3-5 brainwriting The 6-3-5 brainwriting was…

  • LEGO Serious Play: Modeling & Story-Telling

    Some weeks ago I attended the “StrategicPlay® Fundamentals Facilitator Training” at the StrategicPlay® headquarters and have used elements of LEGO Serious Play™ (LSP) quite some time with teams since then. As a Playmobil® fan it is “shocking” to see how easy you can use LSP for solving complex problems or helping team members to understand…