Opportunity: Team workshops have focused on several opportunities from product retrospectives, to design-thinking profession development or design sessions, to enabling the team to see how their work connects to one another and to their organization’s mission.

Solution: Approaches vary from in person to remote, both interactive and more presentation-based.

Mapping-the-Continuum-IT_10.13.2014Mapping the Continuum Workshop: This workshop sought to tie a team of product managers and business analysts together by underscoring how their systems/tools relate or at times hand off to each other, as well as, how their systems/tools touch our end users across the various stages of their growth and experience with our organization. (Specific color swatches represent each system or tool, so in stepping back from this 6 x 10 foot map one could quickly see their relationship to our users and each other.) Full View

Rapid-Real-Time-Group-Brainstorming-SessionRapid Remote Real-Time Team Wireframing: A team of peers engaged in visual brainstorming by providing real-time input to wireframe over a screensharing conference call. Full View

Breaking the Ice: A list of icebreakers, warm-ups, energizers, and whip-arounds I’ve compiled over years of organizing or participating in meetings, workshops, and professional gatherings. Read