visual answers to everyday challenges
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Visual answers to everyday challenges
Jamie McIndoe / Jaume Durany
@jaumedurany
Fairfax Media
Agile Coach
@jamie_mcindoe
Assurity
Technical Test Lead
Jaume Durany
Who are we?
Jamie McIndoe
This is the story of a product team
Team Lamp Dream Team
Why visuals?
Visual learners
Immediacy
Engaging
Visual answers
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Visual answers
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Where are we now?
How far are we from our goal?
How will we work to get to our goal?
Visual answers
Plan Communicate Collaborate
What’s our process?What’s our strategy?
Visual answers
Plan Communicate Collaborate
How do we develop shared understanding?
How do we collaborate remotely?
How do we capture team feedback?
Plan - Managing uncertainty
The big picture
The big picture enhanced
Team focus
Showing and sharing progress
Plan - Adapting teams to goals
Mission 1
Mission 2
Visualising the transition path
Team Self-selection
Team agreements
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Showing the big picture
Visualise process
Team Self-selection
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Showing the big picture
Visualise process
Team Self-selection
Visuals can map out the path for teams to follow
Showing process and gathering feedback during the process helped us adapt and improve
1 week to completely redefine our teams. Visuals + Self-selection rocks!
Communicate - a visual strategy
Visual Strategy
Communicate - A new process
Personal development
Personal development using Trello
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Showing the big picture
Visualise progress
Team Self-selection
Visual strategy
Sharing a new Process
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Showing the big picture
Visualise progress
Team Self-selection
The visuals shared enough information for our teams to work with the strategy
Video was an engaging way of communicating
detail effectively
Ideas had to be simple enough to be communicated
visually
Team understood the process from the visuals
alone
Visual strategy
Sharing a new Process
COLLABORATE
Shared understanding
Collaborative Mapping
Collaborative Mapping
Remote team collaboration
Remote retrospectives
Regular retrospectives were visual but didn’t really work
Visuals needed to be part of a shared scenario
Remote people couldn’t participate in the same way
Remote retrospectives
Remote retrospectives
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Collaborative mapping
Remote retrospectives
Shared understanding & scenarios
Showing the big picture
Visualise progress
Team Self-selection
Visual strategy
Sharing a new Process
What have we learnt?
Plan Communicate Collaborate
Collaborative mapping
Remote retrospectives
Shared understanding & scenarios
Showing the big picture
Visualise progress
Team Self-selection
Testing strategy
Sharing a new Process
Personal Development
The whole team collaboratively develops a shared visual map which tells a story
Remote facilitation needs all participants to have an even playing field
Shared understanding and ownership emerges from working on the same canvas
Insights
THE POWER OF VISUALSto help our teams in planning, communication & collaboration. Providing clarity and direction to guide our activities
Insights
VISIBLE vs VISUALPresenting the information in a way that is engaging and easily understandable to align our teams and share understanding.
Insights
EXPERIMENT, EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIMENT!There are visual approaches that you can use in answering your challenges … try some, learn from their impact and share them!
Thanks!
Jamie McIndoe@jamie_mcindoe
Jaume Durany@jaumedurany
… govisual Team is coming soon! http://govisual.team @govisual_team