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At the SD Best Practices 2008 conference, I attended a tutorial by Ellen Gottendiener where she showed a storyboarding technique she calls the “Wall of Wonder” – it is a way to capture modern day “cave art“ifacts of our discussion. This facilitation technique is a combination of individual work followed by sharing with the big group. This technique allows big groups to tackle hard problems while respecting each individual’s thinking style and encourages collaboration.
It is well-known (by people who facilitate a lot) that when you work in large groups that the extraverts are often the loudest and first to speak in group exercises. Often times it is their ideas that permeate discussions and drive solutions. However, many times the introverts atre the often the one to have the really profound and insightful comments that move the discussion into a new, exciting and interesting directions. How do we find a tool that can challenge both the extraverts and introverts? Let me show you how in the example below.
Here is how the “Wall of Wonder” works; I will be using an example of a software team trying to decide what is in-and-out of scope for the next release.
Hopefully you can see how this tool works and give it a try next time you need to engage a big group in some creative problem solving.