It is a cognitive phenomenon through visual processing; this helps in visualizing words in a series of pictures. Our brain is designed to think visually which is discovers in the late 1980s. Whether it be verbal or thought humans generally create a picture with it in mind. Visual thinking is carried out by mostly two third of the population of the world. Visual thinking helps in organizing thoughts, forming ideas, and remembering important details.

1. How Visual Thinking can
help in being more Agile

3. As I have said many times, agile is not about following a process but it is a
mindset. It is a mindset that makes us aware of our thoughts and actions helping
us to take the right decisions and work on them for our organization's betterment.
It embraces every positive concept that can help in improving the process and
individuals helping them grow. One of the trending concepts that are blooming
in agile now a day is of using visual thinking. Let’s see in detail how it’s
helping agile.
How will you feel when you can visualize your ideas, and solve the problem? It
will make your work a lot easier, right?
When concepts or processes is presented in visuals we as human are more tend
to understand them quickly and work out the solution more easily compared to
written content or imagination. It is because we are attracted to visuals more
easily than anything else.

5. What is Visual Thinking?
It is a cognitive phenomenon through visual processing; this helps in visualizing
words in a series of pictures. Our brain is designed to think visually which is
discovers in the late 1980s. Whether it be verbal or thought humans generally
create a picture with it in mind. Visual thinking is carried out by mostly two third of
the population of the world. Visual thinking helps in organizing thoughts, forming
ideas, and remembering important details. Visual thinking helps in;
· Organize ideas graphically
· Recall and remember data as images
· Estimate physical attributes based on numbers
· Creates a connection between two data or information through pictures for
better understanding
· Quickly learn new processes and concepts connecting them with images
· Understand complex concepts easily with pictures

6. When it comes to agile, being an agile coach, product manager, or executive they have
many daily tasks which require a lot of problem-solving and decision-making based on
the ideas and concepts they are working on or have to work on in the future. If we see,
as an agile coach one has to go through participating in meetings, facilitating events,
training some team members, brainstorming, problem-solving, and also guide and
mentoring sessions for team members.
Let’s see how visual thinking helps agile leaders and executives
Taking Visual notes
While meetings and events everyone is at a certain amount and needs to take notes for
the thinking is an important point, as everything cannot be remembered. In such cases
when that individual takes notes in a form of visuals whether in a writing pad or digital
format or even in a less artistic way helps them to;

7. Stay engaged and attentive in meeting
· Connect in-depth with information
· Easy to share artifacts as it shows images of notes
· An enjoyable activity that can also inspire others
Problem Solving Activities
Being a leader of the team, product managers, or executives problem solving is the
main part of their job whether working on it or supporting others to overcome it. This with
visual thinking and creating a series of processes with images on a whiteboard or paper
will provide;
Provide a clear view of the issue
· Related required data can be easily explained around
· Provides flexibility with various colors and stick notes
· Provides an opportunity to be creative

8. Presentations
In larger organizations presentations are a vital part but it gets boring with increasing time as
bombarding with data continuously makes your mental fatigue and avoids taking in more. But with
visual thinking and inserting images whether digitally created or hand-made snaps, gives;
• Gives a twist to boring presentations
• Better understanding
• Decreases presentation times as a lot can be explained easily with images
Communication and Facilitation
In agile, communication and facilitation of events is an important aspect that gives a lot of benefits,
with visual thinking agile coaches, product managers, and executives communication becomes easy
as;
• This helps to introduce new ideas which attract team members and encourage them to provide
other solutions.
• It helps team members visualize thinking that helps the project succeed.
In facilitation, it helps in
• Visualize agenda and proceed easily
• Makes tougher questions and concepts easier during events with images
• Provides flexibility for the organization of tasks

9. Training
When used in training it helps in a lot of things making the task easy for leaders
and trainers.
• Visual thinking helps explain new concepts easily with images
• Prepare fun activity material for training
• Helping easily planning with helping in organizing thoughts of trainers
• Provides participants full attention and immersion in the process throughout the
sessions
There are various ways visual thinking can help in agile. Some of the examples we
have seen above. There are many more examples in every process and task
carried out in agile that have the benefits of visual thinking. With the above
example, you must have got the idea of how introducing visual thinking in your
agile working will help you be more agile.

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