How to Run Planning Poker Successfully
One crucial aspect of agile projects is accurate estimation. Planning Poker is a popular technique used to solve this problem through collaboratively estimating, debating, and aligning as a team.
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T-Shirt Size vs Fibonacci Sequence in Agile Planning
Accurate estimation is crucial for planning and delivering successful projects. Two popular methods for estimating the complexity of tasks or user stories are T-Shirt sizes and the Fibonacci sequence.
The future of work: Asynchronous collaboration
Imagine being in a remote meeting. Lots of talking is happening, but no action is taken. Some people are speaking up more than others, and some are not participating at all
Effective Facilitation
Facilitating meetings and workshops can be daunting and somewhat stressful. Moreover, attendees are often quiet, disengaged, and feel like the session is a waste of their time <cue joke about useless meetings>.
Movie Script Retrospective
The Movie script retrospective helps the team explore their last cycle in an interesting and fun way, by giving the sprint a title, shouting out heroes, surfacing villains, and describing the most memorable scene and plot twists.
Movie Trivia Quiz
A fun remote ice breaker and energizer game where the team guesses the country from a set of emojis. Use it in daily stand ups, sync sessions, and happy hour sessions.
Emoji Countries Quiz
A fun remote ice breaker and energizer game where the team guesses the country from a set of emojis. Use it in daily stand ups, sync sessions, and happy hour sessions.
SWOT Analysis Workshop
Collaborative SWOT analysis is a powerful tool that can help teams identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for a project or initiative. It involves a group of people coming together to discuss and analyse the internal and external factors that could affect the project.
Gap Analysis Workshop
Collaborative gap analysis involves working as a team to identify areas of improvement and develop strategies and actions to address those gaps. It can be a powerful tool for individuals and teams looking to have a shared understanding of the problem space, and co-create solutions.
Video Game Trivia Quiz
A fun remote ice breaker game where the team tests their video game history knowledge. Use it in daily stand ups, sync sessions, and happy hour sessions.
Special Set of Skills
An activity for new groups of people and teams to better understand each others' hard skills, soft skills, and fun skills.
Effective Facilitation - Part 1: Decide on the purpose & prepare
When running any meeting or workshop, interrogate your thinking by asking yourself questions that will guide how you craft the engagement to address a real problem.
Randomize Daily Stand Up
A template packed with meaningful prompts for daily stand up meetings. Randomly pick 2 or 3 prompts each day, to keep the mornings interesting.
Async Daily Stand Ups
A simple daily stand up that gives the team a voice about their sentiment, and highlights their objectives and blockers.
Mid-Sprint Alignment
Get the team aligned and set the right expectations among the team and stakeholders before the last-minute panic sets in.
Quick Retrospective
A quick retrospective for the team to explore what's working well, what's holding everyone back, and ideate how things could be done better.
In-depth Retrospective
A comprehensive retrospective exploring the team's sentiment about the work cycle, identifying risks and blockers, modifying process and behaviour, and celebrating achievements.
Retrospective Island
Retrospective island lets the team highlight unseen individual contributions, celebrate achievements, find problems, and explore ideas for solutions going forward.
Start / Stop / Continue Retrospective
The start / stop / continue retrospective is an action-oriented session that generates immediate practical ideas for improvement. Use it with your team after a cycle of work.
Mad / Sad / Glad Retrospective
The mad / sad / glad retrospective frames discussion around the emotional journey of the team for a cycle of work. It's a useful way to discover opportunities to improve team morale and ways of working.
Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for Retrospective
The 4 Ls is a retrospective where the team identifies what they liked, learned, lacked, and longed for in a cycle of work.
Effective Facilitation - Part 2: Stimulate conversation & find patterns
Running a meeting, workshop, or training session doesn't have to be scary. We believe that anyone can be a great facilitator.
Async One-on-one Meetings
One-on-one meetings need to have more purpose and depth. Use this template as a starting point to craft your own one-on-one collaborative space.
Problem Statement Mapping
Design thinking makes us immerse ourselves in the problem space. This workshop will help us do just that.
Project Kickoff
Kicking off a new project or team can feel daunting. Use this template to create alignment between team members and understand the goals and outputs more clearly.
User Empathy Mapping
Get your team to better understand your users through collaboration and empathy. By gaining a better appreciation for the people you're serving, the better your solutions.
Quick Ice Breakers
Remote sessions can often feel cold and boring. Use the quick ice breaker template to randomly generate a topic for the group.
Cryptic Words
A fun remote ice breaker game where the team solves mind bending Rebus puzzles. Use it in daily stand ups, sync sessions, and happy hour sessions.
Would You Rather
A fun remote ice breaker game where the team weighs in on tricky would-you-rather dilemmas and explains their choices.
Emoji Movies
A fun remote ice breaker game where the team guesses the movie from a set of emojis. Use it in daily stand ups, sync sessions, and happy hour sessions.
Effective Facilitation - Part 3: Consolidate the essence & communicate it
Sessions can generate bundles of energy among your group. People feel heard, useful, and inspired. But more often than not, the momentum gets lost and important information and insights have no follow through.
Team Motivators
CHAMPFROGS is a framework to think about what motivates us all. Are you ready to start exploring it with your team?
Team Charter
Unpack the team's goals, values, strengths, and more. Creating alignment in a team is critical to minimizing wasted effort, avoiding strange sentiment, and promoting chances of success.
Quick Mood Wheel
People can experience around 34,000 emotions. Emotions influence our attitude, interactions with people and teams, and performance in our work.
Personality Maps
Personality maps lets us learn more about each other for a richer mutual understanding and a more productive team dynamic.
Interacts Mini Timer
The Interacts Mini timer helps you control the timing in your meetings, workshops, or training sessions.
Group Brainstorm
Explore the problem and solution space by gathering everyone's ideas quickly, with rich discussions.
Decision Trade Off Workshop
The decision trade offs session eliminates decision paralysis in teams by providing a quick collaborative way to choose an option.
Friday Wind Down
The Friday wind down session is a fun and relaxed activity for groups and teams to share their thoughts about the week, and reconnect before heading out for the weekend.
Three Little Pigs Retrospective
The Three little pigs retrospective helps the team areas of weakness, areas going relatively okay, and areas that are strong and setting the group up for success.
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Interacts Open Beta
Interacts is a simple tool that makes remote collaboration engaging and productive in minutes. Get rich input in your meetings and workshops quickly and easily with sticky notes, polls, word clouds, voted questions, and more.