{"id":9671,"date":"2020-03-30T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2020-05-19T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:36:23","slug":"tools-remote-lean-inception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/tools-remote-lean-inception\/","title":{"rendered":"Which tools did I use on the remote Lean Inception?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got quite a few emails asking which tool I used on the <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/remote-lean-inception-during-the-pandemic-period\/\">last remote Lean Inception I facilitated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So here it goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>E-mail<\/strong>: for sharing the meeting invite and the pre-inception information. At the end of each day, some notes were shared via e-mail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zoom<\/strong>: for video-conferencing. All in the same zoom meeting for the activities with everyone together; whoever someone was \u201cdriving\u201d the activity, the driver would share his\/her computer and everyone would follow the virtual wall. We also used (a lot!) the breakout rooms features &#8212; <span lang=\"en\">smaller rooms created by the facilitator, in real time &#8212; f<\/span>or whenever we had to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/facilitation-techniques-lean-inception\/\">divide and conquer<\/a> (smaller groups on the breakout room, then we would rejoin in the main room).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miro<\/strong>: our virtual wall for placing the activities posters and post-its. We followed the activities order as described in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Inception-Align-People-Product-ebook\/dp\/B079CMQQB5\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=lean+inception&amp;qid=1585572217&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lean Inception book<\/a> (it is also on this post with <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/lean-inception-agenda-template\/\">the lean inception agenda and activities<\/a>). For each activity, we copied the activity template (from this page with <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/lean-inception-posters\/\">the lean inception pdf posters<\/a>), placed on Miro, and used the virtual post-its on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FunRetrospectives<\/strong>: We used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funretrospectives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FunRetrospectives.com<\/a> for ideas and for a simple online board for the energisers. More about the specific energisers we used in this post: <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/top-7-remote-team-energizers\/\">Top 7 Remote Team Energizers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9672\" src=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-1536x949.png 1536w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-1200x742.png 1200w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas-1440x890.png 1440w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/remote-lean-inception-mvp-canvas.png 1890w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the image, people talking on a<em>\u00a0<\/em>Zoom <em>breakout room<\/em>, adding post-it to a Lean Inception poster \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/the-mvp-canvas\/\">MVP Canvas<\/a> \u2014 on a Miro virtual board.<\/p>\n<h2>What have I learned?<\/h2>\n<p>The workshop was successful because <strong>the participants had a great interaction, even though they were all remote<\/strong>. The process and tools helped with it. A <strong>well guided process<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/book\/lean-inception-how-to-align-people-and-build-the-right-product\/\">Lean Inception<\/a>) and <strong>tools for specific purpose<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/funretrospectives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FunRetrospectives<\/a>) were essencial to enable a great remote workshop.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are in a similar situation and have <strong>to plan and facilitate a remote workshop<\/strong>, here are my advice:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Decide the process<\/strong> you will follow, prepare and communicate it to all participants<\/li>\n<li>Decide and <strong>test the tools<\/strong> you will use<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be creative and empathetic<\/strong> to adjust to whatever adversity happens during the workshop (plan, but adjust the plan; things happen and you will have to adapt)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got quite a few emails asking which tool I used on the last remote Lean Inception I facilitated. So here it goes: E-mail: for sharing the meeting invite and the pre-inception information. At the end of each day, some notes were shared via e-mail. Zoom: for video-conferencing. All in the same zoom meeting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1925,2088],"tags":[],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-9671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lean-inception-en","category-remote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}