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Perhaps a "Remember the Future" exercise:
- visualize the future state in 5 years
- describe it; how is it different?
- "reminisce" about the changes from the current state to that state
George
On 9/29/15 9:13 PM, 'Zander Collier, III' [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] wrote:
>
>
> I mean, find out what precipitated their move to bring you on board to
> do Scrum.
>
> They were doing something before? Did they not do software development
> before? Maybe they tried Scrum before and it didn't work?
>
> Your original email suggested to me they're going to scrum from
> something else. Find out what that something else was, what didn't
> work, and what precipitated their decision to do something else.
>
> I'm sure you'll get the usual, "Stuff wasn't getting done... Wasn't
> getting done fast enough..."
>
> Too many places I've worked have "decided to go agile" and "to use
> scrum" but then never had the discipline to follow through. They
> thought that by calling something that they did "agile" without actually
> doing agile would somehow magically confer benefits when they had
> unrealistic expectations and refused to be disciplined about how they
> pursued using the process.
>
> Maybe you can ferret that sorry of thing out...
>
> Best,
> -Zander
>
> On Sep 29, 2015 5:29 PM, "Michael Wollin [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]"
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Journey lines? Or what do you mean, Zandler?
>
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:24 PM, 'Zander Collier, III'
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> You might want to consider taking them through an exercise of how
> they got to where they are
>
> That might reveal a lot without them thinking that you're getting
> them to reveal their concerns.
>
> Best,
> -Zander
>
> On Sep 29, 2015 4:04 PM, "Michael Wollin [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]"
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Leading a two hour workshop tomorrow to executives at my client
> about their agile transformation I am shepherding. Any
> suggestions on a good and short ice breaker game? I thought
> about "Pocket Manifesto " but I'm not teaching agile as much as
> I'm discovering their concerns.
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