Jolly Rajan
Agile Coach
Facilitate a Visioning Session
Contents
1. Sample Agenda
2. Power of a Vision
3. Facilitating the Session
Sample Agenda
1. Vision, Why?
2. Characteristics
3. Food for thought!
4. Let’s create our vision
5. Close
Why do we need a Vision
Authoritarian
Decree
Micro
ManagementVision
Forces That Support Status Quo
Leading Change John P. Kotter 1996
Characteristics of an Effective Vision
Imaginable Desirable
Feasible Focused
Flexible Communicable
Leading Change John P. Kotter 1996
Emphasize the importance of open and honest communication.
Reinforce that the comments made during the session belong to the team.
Provide the team with Inspirations derived from interviews with key individuals (if possible).
Give some examples of Visions created by other Agile Transformation Teams.
Set the Stage
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Faster delivery
Higher quality
Sell more bananas
Shorten delivery cycle
Improvement in customer
experience
Deliver what the customer
wanted
Stop rushing
Inspirations
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Dedicated team
Meet customer expectations
Build something cool
Meet what we want
Improve time to market
Collaborative prioritization
Release must not be an
event
ABC’s innovative IT organization strengthens ABC’s
business by delivering high value products with quality
and velocity to exceed the expectations of the business
better than anybody else.
We are a continuously improving, single team delivering
awesome digital experiences that ensure XYZ company is
the ONLY place to buy bananas.
Examples
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Brainstorming vs Brainwriting
https://www.uco.edu/academic-affairs/cqi/files/docs/facilitator_tools/brainhan.pdf
Brainstorming sessions tend to be dominated by a few individuals
Better ideas may be held back
Brainwriting methods are designed to encourage more uniform participation
Enables all group members to think without any blocking
Split into teams of 2 members each.
Give the teams 10 minutes to come up with the first
versions.
Repeat this process by combining the teams to
have 4, 8 members until there is one version of the
Vision.
Remind participants that may not be the final
version and will be refined via email.
Twist on Brainwriting
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Thank the team for attending.
Take a photo of the white board (if used).
Capture the candidate Vision statement electronically.
Make it clear that there will be opportunities to fine tune the Vision statement.
Identify who owns the Action Item to gather feedback and finalize Vision.
Assign due date to the Action Item.
Close the session.
Close
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