Improve Collaboration
Amplio Virtual Collaboration Boards
Enhanced collaboration
Virtual collaboration boards are more important than ever. While most people use them as virtual whiteboards, their potential impact is great. Our boards are designed with the following uses below.
All of these boards are given to Amplio University attendees. They need their own license to use them, however.
Lucid Spark boards are used. In the workshop there is no need for a Lucid license. If you want to use them on your own, however, you need to purchase a license from Lucid.
Boards are provided to the different tracks on a license-free, in perpetuam basis with the only requirement not removing the Success Engineering logo.
Types collaboration
- Real-time collaboration. This is how they are usually used – everyone on at the same time. But this is not always practical. These boards let everyone see what everyone else is thinking. This type of collaboration usually feels safer than other types.
- Asynchronous collaboration. The boards are designed so that people in different time zones can work together, even if not at the same time. This enables a new way of working. People in similar time zones can work together and then use the limited overlap time to consolidate views.
- Enables Safe Communication. Safe environments do not always exist. The anonymity these boards create enables “saying” things that might not otherwise be said.
- Enables dumping tacit knowledge. People know a lot more than they are often aware of. Many of the boards are designed to enable people to make explicit their intuitive thinking. This has a tendency to expand people’s understanding and collaboration.
- Documentation of any decisions made during a collaboration. Meetings and working sessions should result in decisions made. The boards are designed to document these and keep them up to date.
- Record sessions. This enables people who miss any to see what happened and contribute later.
- Include hyperlinks to related information. Boards can become collections of information that is useful for the teams.
Amplio Learning Journeys and workshops use these boards to help teach and provide applicable ones to attendees. All boards are available to those in the ACE track of the university.
Other boards are available in the Amplio Consultant Educators Learning Journey.
Types of boards
- Boards that facilitate working together. These boards are designed to enhance collaboration and working together.
- Boards that facilitate decision-making. Making good decisions is enhanced when people are provided with the factors to consider.
- Boards that assist in learning. Not all coaches are natural trainers. These boards help people learn by accessing their dormant knowledge.
Note: Everyone in Amplio University gets access to all of these boards. Those marked with Scrum are particularly useful for Scrum teams.
Boards that facilitate working together
The challenges board
The challenges board not only identifies challenges at all levels (teams to organizations) but it provides guidance on understanding the cause of the challenges and how to fix them. All paid for tracks.
Amplio team estimation
Amplio Team Estimation gets better results in significantly less time than Planning Poker does by countering the inherent bias people have when estimating. All tracks.
Customer Journey Mapping
This provides a way to create what’s needed for a Quickest Valuable Release (QVR) as well as decompose it into features and stories. All paid for tracks.
Two different after-action reviews for retrospections
These boards are useful to see how well you’ve done and how you can improve. All tracks.
Doing a premortem
A premortem takes a little time to do but avoids many risks you may otherwise face. This is based on Gary Klein’s pre-mortem. All tracks.
Creating Quickest Valuable Releases
Agility is predicated on creating small items of value. This board facilitates identifying stakeholders’ values and writing up what can be quickly created and released. All paid for tracks.
Lean Coffees
Lean coffees are informal meetings used to learn topics where the agenda is set by the participants. All tracks.
Running Cafe Conversations
Cafe conversations are a great way to get 20-50 people to learn together about what they think is happening. All paid for tracks.
The clean slate
The clean slate exercise is a way of clearing the air so people can work better together. All paid for tracks.
Sailboat
Discover what’s helping you, hurting you, and what risks you have to face. All tracks.
Boards that facilitate making good decisions
Capabilities for a quick start
Although Amplio is incredibly rich in options, it can start as simply as Scrum. This board is used to create a quick, simple start for any situation. All paid for tracks.
Creating an improvement path
While the earlier “quick start” board is used to start an Agile transition, this board identifies what improvements are needed and the order in which to implement them. ACEs and cohort tracks.
Sprints or Daily Timeboxing
The Sprints or Daily Timeboxing board guides in deciding whether a team should plan with sprints or use daily timeboxing. Which to use varies by team and type of work. All tracks.
Value creation structures
How people are organized has a big impact on how workflows. All paid for tracks.
Boards that facilitate learning
The dot game
The dot game is an easy way to teach the essence of Agile in an hour in a remote manner. This can also be given to management to teach them the essence of Agile and the importance of self-organization. ACEs and cohort tracks.
First principles and factors for effective value streams.
Amplio is based on Flow, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints. When these are understood, many complex problems become understandable. All tracks.
Feedback on feedback
Knowledge work is mostly invisible until something is demonstrated. Eliminating waste is mainly accomplished by eliminating delays in feedback. All tracks.