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4L

The 4L retrospective allows team members to identify the positives, negatives, learnings and aspirations in a project or sprint.

Retrospective

5 Whys

The 5W or 5 Whys consists of asking the question why? 5 times to get to the source of a problem and find an appropriate solution.

Problem Solving

5W2H (WWWWHHW)

The 5W2H allows you to diagnose a situation or a problem in a precise and exhaustive way by understanding a phenomenon, a behavior or when we want to give meaning to an event.

Problem Solving

6 Thinking Hats

The 6 thinking hats tool is a creative problem-solving process that helps people break free from habitual ways of thinking. It allows you to perceive challenges and events from different perspectives.

Design Thinking

Action board

An Action board places requests on a board according to their completion.

Management

Burndown board

The burndown board is updated during daily meetings. It makes it possible to quickly and easily obtain a reliable indicator of the progress of a project.

Management

Empathy Map

An Empathy Map is designed to show detailed insights into how customers feel about your product or service, and if they think it’s suited for them.

Design Thinking

Impact Effort matrix

The Impact Effort matrix is used to organise suggested solutions or issues based on a comparison between the effort required by the team to solve the problems and the impact the solution will have on the users.

Design Thinking

Ishikawa

An ishikawa diagram is a visualization tool for categorizing the potential causes of a problem in order to identify a problem’s root causes.

Problem Solving

Kanban

A Kanban board (Product Dev) helps you visualize the different steps of a project, using different columns for different status.

Management

Milestone slip chart

The Milestone slip chart is a graph that tracks the position of the project's milestones over time.

Performance Management

PDCA

This PDCA methodology aims at improving the quality of a product or service, or a production process by following the four phases: Plan, Do, Check, Act. The objective is to encourage a virtuous circle to solve the initial problem in the long term and to innovate to continue to progress.

Problem Solving

Persona

Personas will help you determine who you are creating a product or service for. This exercise helps you navigate design and feature decisions to meet the needs, motivations, and desires of your core customer.

Design Thinking

PICK matrix

A PICK matrix helps identifying which ideas should be acted on first. It is also an enabler for focusing discussion and achieving consensus.

Design Thinking

Portfolio Vision

The Portfolio Vision is a description of the future state of a portfolio’s Value Streams and Solutions and describes how they will cooperate to achieve the portfolio’s objectives and the broader aim of the Enterprise.

SAFe®

Problem Solving

This structured root-cause problem solving workshop addresses systemic problems. Identify actual causes of a problem, instead of just addressing the symptoms.

SAFe®

Problem Tree

The problem tree is a logical framework and analysis tool that allows the causes and effects of a specific problem to be mapped out in order to better understand it and better consider what can be done about it.

Problem Solving

Risk matrix

The Risk matrix an analysis technique that assesses the severity of a risk in relation to the probability of its occurrence. It highlights the degree of impact of each risk.

Design Thinking

Risk matrix weighted

The Risk matrix weighted categorizes risk according to Probability and severity and ranks them for better decision-making.

Design Thinking

ROAM Board

The ROAM board is used during the agile team planning meeting, when the user stories are reviewed and estimated. It is used to identify and analyse the risks and potential problems that may be encountered when completing the user stories presented in the product backlog.

SAFe®

Scrum

A scrum board is a visual representation of the work to be done by a Scrum team during a sprint.

Management

Skills matrix

The skills matrix is a tool used to draw a collective profile of the skills already available in a group and those that need to be enhanced, or sought outside the group.

Management

Speedboat

The speedboat workshop provides an opportunity to visualize and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a team in a playful way, with the aim of continuous improvement.

Brainstorming

Stacey matrix

The Stacey matrix displays the degree of complexity of a situation according to the level of uncertainty and the level of agreement with the situation.

Design Thinking

Stakeholder Map

The Stakeholder Map helps you to identify and map out the key influencers related to your challenge, and assess their level of influence and interest.

Design Thinking

Starfish

The starfish retrospective helps teams look for areas of continuous improvement, assess the value generated by their own actions while at the same time identifying the negative points of a project.

Retrospective

Story Map

Story Mapping (or story map) aligns stakeholders with the product's functionality and lays the foundation for the roadmap according to the user’s needs. The workshop allows us to break down all the functionalities needed for the final product, to arrange them by theme and by priority.

Design Thinking

SWOT

The SWOT analysis is a compilation of your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Its objective is to help organizations develop a full awareness of all factors when making decisions.

Strategy

Team Canvas Basic

The team canvas basic will help you align your team’s goals, values and purposes, and help team members find their role on the team. This exercise will also help you determine the overall vision of the team.

Design Thinking

Team meeting

The team meeting board helps you optimize your meeting by defining a clear structure to the topics you wish to address.

Management

Team rythm – 1 week

Plan out projects milestones for your team on a set duration for alignment.

Management

Value proposition canvas

The value proposition canvas is a tool that identifies the value creation points in the products or services offered by a company, and the customer segments likely to benefit from them.

Strategy

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4L

5 Whys

5W2H (WWWWHHW)

6 Thinking Hats

Action board

Burndown board

Empathy Map

Impact Effort matrix

Ishikawa

Kanban

Milestone slip chart

PDCA

Persona

PICK matrix

Portfolio Vision

Problem Solving

Problem Tree

Risk matrix

Risk matrix weighted

ROAM Board

Scrum

Skills matrix

Speedboat

Stacey matrix

Stakeholder Map

Starfish

Story Map

SWOT

Team Canvas Basic

Team meeting

Team rythm – 1 week

Value proposition canvas

Product

Use Cases

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