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Critical Questions to Answer with the Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas was created by Alexander Osterwalder, of Strategyzer®. The canvas provides a one-page primer and template for analysis. Questions and points of view are detailed below.[1]...

Kanban or Scrum: Pick the Right Workflow Tool

Guest post by Christian Golden, Ph.D. In the world of content and product development, Kanban and Scrum are two of the names you’ll hear most often. One difference exists between workflow tools that...

Do NOT Attempt a Design Sprint Without a Professional Facilitator

What is a Design Sprint? Created at Google Ventures, a Design Sprint represents a methodology that helps teams complete a five-day workshop for building and testing some problem-solving product or...

Don’t Ruin Your Scrum Sprints — Facilitate Scrum Events Using These Agendas

The Agile mindset demands frequent, and continuing, interaction among its stakeholders. Perhaps more so with Scrum, than other frameworks. From Daily Scrum activities to Sprint Retrospective events...

Don’t Run! How to Manage Meeting Conflict

Apr 4, 2019 | Communication Skills, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

A meeting without conflict is a boring meeting, and we've seen very little value derived from predictable and...

Liberating Structures Design Sprint Plan Contributed by Alumni and Guest, Douglas Ferguson

Mar 7, 2019 | Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Using Methods From Liberating Structures to Create a Robust Design Sprint Plan MG RUSH welcomes Douglas Ferguson as an...

Product Owner — Creating Products that Customers Love

Dec 4, 2018 | Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

“Creating Products that Customers Love” strikes us as highly poignant, as much of the world heads toward a holiday...

8 Meeting Purposes and Five Reasons to Host Facilitated Sessions

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Effective meetings are first based on a clear line of sight to an end result, preferably something that can be...

How to Facilitate Decision-Making Using Pros and Cons

Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving

First, here is the traditional Pros and Cons method according to its creator, Benjamin Franklin: “For pros and cons,...

Use a Professional Meeting Wrap-up Because Most Meetings Don’t End, They Stop

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools

Daniel Pink's book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing stresses the importance of the meeting wrap-up. He...

Facilitate Innovation By Using the Brainstorming Tool as Intended

Meeting Tools

To facilitate innovation for products or processes provides a significant life force and has become a strategic...

How to Categorize Lists of Ideas and Inputs When Facilitating

Analysis Methods, Meeting Tools

One of the worst questions a facilitator could ask is "How would you like to categorize these?" They don't know how....

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