A blog about people, culture, organisations and teams.
Agile (and other) teams are made up of people with different capabilities together into one multidisciplinary team, collaborating daily towards a common goal.
This workshop is a game that helps people play at creating multidisciplinary teams while thinking about capability needs, learning opportunities and constraints.
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In my last post, A framework for thinking about team memory, joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations, I introduced a framework for thinking about Team Memory.
I have now turned this into a Miro board template for a workshop, which is available on the Miroverse.
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In my previous post Team exercise: Building empathy and understanding with the Capability Comb, I introduced an approach to help a team surface their capabilities and identify opportunities to collaborate.
Since then, I have created a miroboard on the miroverse to use with the workshop. You can get a copy of it here miro.com/miroverse/the-capability-comb-workshop-template . If you use it, please drop me a line and let me know how it goes.
Update Oct 2024. I have now added this retrospective to the Miroverse for anyone to use here.
This week, I designed a short retrospective to close a phase of work. The team was handing the work over to an ongoing client team, so it was a perfect time for reflection and a chance to collate advice for the future.
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A Miro workshop, created with Jamie Arnold, that takes you from vision to measures, identifying your outcomes along the way.
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Another day, another Miro template. I have now published my Community of Practice Kick-off Canvas on the Miroverse.
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In a previous post, I wrote about Quick icebreakers for online meetings, (that don’t suck). In that post, I mentioned that I love using the Think Links game created by Edward de Bono to get people to think creatively and get the ice broken.
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