digibury march 11 - mike jongbloet: great kick off meetings
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Great kick-off meetings
Mike Jongbloet User Experience Lead
Great kick-off meetings
Mike Jongbloet User Experience Lead
workshops
Top tips for organising your next workshop
A few activities from my playbook
Five tips to take into your next workshop
1. 2. 3.
• Gather project knowledge
• Build relationships
• Understand culture & context
The pre kick off, kick off
Who should attend?
• A maximum of 10 - 12
• Invite a variety of stakeholders
• Make sure you invite the right people
Structure is important
• Build your agenda well in advance
• Send over a prep email
• Time-box, but put the control in their hands
Logistics
• Location is important
• Take someone else with you
• Keep the room energised
House rules
• Leave egos at the door
• One person speaks at a time (difficult!)
• Don’t hold back
Top tips for organising your next workshop
A few activities from my playbook
Five tips to take into your next workshop
1. 2. 3.
Headline writing• Split the room into 2 - 4 groups
• Each group has 10 minutes to write a 30 second pitch
• What is the business problem?
• Who is the audience?
• Why are we doing this?
• Each group present their pitch and others can ask questions
Proto-personas• As a group, brainstorm who the key personas
are (5 mins)
• Individually, each person fills in a proto-persona card (5 mins per persona)
• In pairs, combine thoughts to create a combined set of personas
• Rinse and repeat until you have one or two sets of personas
Design studio• Pick a key area of the site or key design
challenge
• Individually, each person has 10 mins to sketch 6 ideas
• In pairs to discuss and combine into two ideas 10mins
• In larger groups, combine into a single idea (10 mins)
• Present ideas to group and discuss
Mobile first content• Spend 10 minutes as a group brainstorming
content items that should go on page X
• Prioritise this list by discussing it, make this a quick exercise try to limit discussion
• Now sketch it into a mobile layout - figuring out what order things go in and what can be dropped altogether
Priority / feasability plot• Give each participant a stack of post it notes
• Give them ten minutes to write out as many requirements, in user story format as possible
• Collect them all and go through the pile placing them on a MSCW vs feasibility chart to map out where the requirements sit
• A quick way to do this is with voting panels
Top tips for organising your next workshop
A few activities from my playbook
Five tips to take into your next workshop
1. 2. 3.
Gather information and build
relationships before your workshop
Carefully pick activities to learn the
right information
Your role is to facilitate - try not to
get involved in decision making
Keep the room energised with
regular breaks and refreshments
Make it fun, engaging and inspiring
It’s not a meeting, it’s a workshop!
Thanks!
Mike Jongbloet