The Only Useful Icebreaker Activity Anyone May Ever Need
Icebreaker activities may be contrived, awkward, irrelevant. However, a good icebreaker can be useful, and I regularly use the same one in different workshops.
Facilitating an X-Matrix Workshop
I was asked recently for guidance on facilitating a workshop to populate an X-Matrix. My initial response was that I don’t have a fixed approach because its so contextual. It depends on who is in the room, what is already known or decided, what the existing approaches are, how much time we have etc. On reflection though, I realised that …
Facilitating A Kanban Konversation
As I mentioned in my Scrum Gathering Musings, I came up with a twist on the Goldfish Bowl format which I used during the Kanban Exploration Deep Dive. Here are some more details. The Goldfish Bowl format works really well for facilitating a focussed discussion with a large number of people. It keeps the active voices to a manageable number, …