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Process Doodle
Posted by Don McGreal on June 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Timing: 20 mins
Ingredients:
- Whiteboards and/or flip-charts
- Markers
Directions:
Divide the participants in to groups and ask them to graphically represent their current development process. Have them think about roles, artifacts produced, and challenges. Invite them to be creative and to not worry about using any formal notation (UML, Gantt Charts, RUP, etc.). Ask them not to use people’s names, or to criticize personalities.
Each team will then then present their creation to the whole group.
Learning Points:
- This is an interesting and fun way for a facilitator to gain visibility in to what is working and what the challenges are in an organization’s current process.
- This exercise also creates more transparency within a team, by giving people a chance to see how others characterize the process.
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I’ve found that this gets much more interesting – and fun – if you provide stickers of some kind. While doing this in Australia, I stumbled upon an arts & crafts shop, and they had foam stickers of superheroes, people, and letters. When I added these in, the teams got MUCH more creative.