My quest to promote creativity in project communication through Project Adventure Maps brought me last week to the UCSC Extension blog. There, Kimberly Wiefling, winner of the 2008 Shrinkie, shared in the comments an awesome exercise to create a shared vision and approach within your team. “… I sometimes ask a team to imagine that …
So. We should have fun and creativity in projects. So. The team should have a shared understanding of the goal and approach. So. If people are involved you get acceptance and engagement, multiple point of views, and alignment. Co-creation is a powerful concept. So. Metaphors and storytelling are useful techniques.
How do you keep your virtual team together? Or your project team? The goal of your project or organization is a powerful mechanism for alignment. Everyone is working towards the same result. But, it must be something worthwhile. It must be something exciting and fresh. And it must be something people can relate to. I …
“All this talking about self-organization, complex systems and other fuzzy wuzzy stuff. HOW DO I USE THIS IN A REAL PROJECT?” Fair enough. It is the same question I have. In this post I will outline my idea for a technique that combines the notion of a project as human system working towards a desired …