How to rock your planning session - Scotch on the Rocks 2014

A presentation about planning the planning sessions.
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3. First  rule:   Basic  human  rights  should  be   implemented  in  planning   sessions.  
4. 1.  Treat  everyone  equal.     2.  Explain.     3.  Use  planning  tools  everyone   can  use.  
5. Second  rule:   Plan  the  planning.  
6. “By  failing  to  prepare,  you  are   preparing  to  fail.”     ―  Benjamin  Franklin  
7.  Third  rule:   Don’t  use  Lorem  ipsum.  
8. Fact:  
9. Our  short-­‐term  memory  can   handle  7  ±  2  elements  at  once.       (It’s  a  miracle  we  get  anything   done)  
11. Solution?  
12. Use  patterns.       You  don’t  have  to  use  your   energy  relearning  continuously.      
13. Make  things  as   concrete  as  you  can.     Removes  affordance  obstacles   and  makes  us  faster.  We  don’t   need  to  explain  the  door   handle.  
14. Avoid  chaos.     It  takes  a  lot  of  energy  to   manage  and  understand.    
15. Avoid  being  too   abstract.     WYSIWYG.    
16. Chaos   Patterns  
17. Abstract  
18. Concrete  
19. Patterns   Chaos   Concrete   Abstract  
20. Part  1:     Planning  the  planning  session  
21. Planning  limits  
22. TOPICS   PEOPLE   TIME   MONEY  
23. The  ”human  factor”  
25. A  simple  "sketch  it  up"  agenda   for  planning  meetings  to  make   sure  everyone  actually     reads  the  agenda  
27. 1  hour  planning  sessions   should  be  banned!  
29. The  best  time  frame  is  a  whole   day  workshop  (6  hours).       Workshop  requires  everyone  to   really  be  up  to  date  about  the   topic.  
30. workshops  
31. Using  parking  lot  method  for   irrelevant  or  undeained   questions  
33. Part  2:     Planning  in  planning  session  
35. Write  the  notes  together!  
36. Planning  information  architecture,   which  utilises  a  "blank  canvas"   technique  and  personas  
43. A  wall  of  themes,  a  method   used  to  organise  and  prioritise   issues  during  planning  sessions  
45. A  Sketching  battle,  which  is  a   way  to  make  sure  if  your  way  of   thinking  is  a  match  with  the   clients  need!  
46. Pikemen  at  the  Battle  of  Rocroi  in  France,   in  1643:  picture  by  Sebastian  Vrancx.  
48. Part  3:     Remove  planning  blockers!  
49. Before  you  start  the  actual   planning  part:     Take  time  to  remind   everyone  why  the  feature   is  relevant.  
50. Transferring  unfamiliar   situation  to  more  familiar   contexts  in  order  to  clarify   foggy  specs.  
51. Turning  goals  upside  down  will   make  the  puzzle  easier  to   crack?  
52. ”How  could  we  make  the  user   experience  really  crappy?”  
53. Mission     impossible!   By:    James  Macanufo      @macgeo  
54. ”How  do  we  create  the  CMS  ...  if   the  updaters  only  have  mobile   phones  to  work  with?"  
55. ”How  do  we  create  a  mobile   device  …  with  no  battery?”  
57. ”We  don’t  want  to  play  your   games.  Just  make  it  work.”  
60. Always  explain  the  WHY  before   hand.     Explain  the  beneaits  behind  the   method  your  using.  
62. “Everybody  has  a  plan  until   they  get  punched  in  the  face.”     ―  Mike  Tyson  
64. We  can’t  really  plan  our   failures.     (Planning  to  fail  would  just  be   stupid)  
66. QA?   Tuuli  Aalto-­‐Nyyssönen   @turkutuuli