Agile is defined by an open development process driven by collaboration. But you know that collaboration is not always an easy process and in a lot of cases you need to come up with creative ways of establishing and supporting it. By that reason Agile community was very busy in the last decade coming up with new and innovative tools to boost collaboration on different aspects of development and planning - Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, Example Mapping, Risk Brainstorming, Three Amigos workshop, Stakeholder Mapping, Event Storming, etc. There’s a lot of tools. But how do all they fit together and when should you use one or another in the wider context of a project delivery? This is a very practical talk that will attempt to group and present modern Agile tools in the context of project delivery and will provide guidance recommendations for their use.

1. Modern Project Toolbox

2. @everzet
communication designer

3. http://StakeholderWhisperer.com

4. @INVIQA

5. Collaborative
Decision Making

6. Individuals & Interactions
over
Processes & Tools

7. Workshops
over

8. Chair taming sessions

9. Navigating
over
Driving

10. Deliberate Discovery
over
Pre-project Discovery

11. Confidence
over
Predictability

12. General tips
4 Unconstrained space, Sticky Notes, Sharpies
4 Enforce conversation through Sticky Notes
4 Diverge / Converge
4 Collab artefacts & documentation

13. Decision Making Framework
1. Surface Context
2. Expose Constraints
3. Explore Options
4. Form Strategy to Deliver

14. 1. Context

15. Stakeholder Mapping

17. Making it work
1. Invite stakeholders you know
2. Draw the layout
3. Name everyone worth naming
4. Arrange names accordingly
5. Decide engagement strategies

19. Metric Modelling

22. Making it work
1. Invite department owners or skilled reps
2. Brainstorm metrics that drive people (using color-
coding)
3. Arrange metrics into hierarchy
4. Drive connections between meters
5. Prioritize and decide on monitoring

23. Strategic Event Storming

25. Making it work
1. Invite department owners or skilled reps
2. Blue-tack the roll of paper onto the wall
3. Describe the flow of events
4. Put the first event in the center
5. Ask people to fill the gaps

26. Honourable mentions
4 Stakeholder Interviews
4 Persona Development
4 Analytics & Data Mining
4 Feature Mapping
4 Brand workshops
4 User Journey Analysis

27. 2. Constraints

28. Risk Discovery Workshop

30. Legend
4 Red - catastrophic outcome
4 Yellow - scenario
4 Gray - root cause

31. Making it work
1. Invite department owners or skilled reps
2. Brainstorm catastrophic outcomes
3. Brainstorm scenarios
4. Identify root causes

32. Business Goal Definition

34. Making it work
1. Invite Product Sponsor
2. Bring the Metric Map
3. Draw the layout
4. Ask people to move metrics into the layout
5. Limit metrics to 3-5 per milestone
6. Add readings

35. Skills Mapping

37. Legend
4 0 - What is it?
4 1 - Can Read
4 2 - Can Write
4 3 - Can Teach

38. Making it work
1. Invite department owners or skilled reps
2. Define the initiative or milestone you're working on
3. Brainstorm skills required to deliver it
4. Ask teams/employees fill their level

39. Honourable mentions
4 Initiative Mapping
4 Value Stream Mapping
4 Integration Mapping
4 Budget Workshop

40. 3. Options

41. Impact Mapping

43. Making it work
1. Invite Product Owner, allow stakeholders to dip in
2. Put the initiative or milestone in the center
3. Brainstorm actors
4. Brainstorm impacts
5. Prioritise actors/impacts
6. Explore capabilities enabling impacts

44. Event Storming

46. Legend
4 Yellow - event
4 Blue - command
4 Purple - rule

47. Making it work
1. Choose area to focus on
2. Invite department owners or skilled reps for that
area
3. Blue-tack the roll of paper onto the wall
4. Storm events
5. Identify commands
6. Explore rules

48. Honourable mentions
4 Platform demos
4 Prototyping
4 Wire-framing

49. 4. Delivery Strategy

50. User Story Mapping

52. Legend
4 Blue - topic
4 Green - activity
4 Yellow - sticky note

53. Making it work
1. Invite Product Owner, allow stakeholders to dip in
2. Brainstorm activities
3. Arrange activities into the timeline, fill the gaps
4. Highlight topics
5. Brainstorm capabilities on the board
6. Plan the first release

54. Example Mapping

56. Legend
4 Yellow - story
4 Blue - rule
4 Green - example
4 Red - question without answer

57. Making it work
1. Ask Product Owner to prepare
stories for the workshop
2. Invite three amigos (and UX
and integration partners)
3. Ask Product Owner to map
rules he is aware of
4. Start writing examples in "The
one where ..." format

58. Honourable mentions
4 Demand Mapping
4 Estimation

59. That's a lot of time spent
talking!

60. Costs of rewriting code
over
Costs of doing workshop

61. Feedback loops define
software costs

62. Workshops are a cheapest
way to close particular
feedback loops

63. Thank you!