The Agile2013 workshop slide deck : - When you know something, you become instantly hit the Curse of Knowledge : you cannot know what it means not to know what you know. This workshop teaches some narrative practices to build a story that will help you to explain simply complex concepts and drive the change.

1. The Storytelling Battle
Oana Juncu
August 5th, 2013

2. « If you cannot tell it
simply, it means you
didn’t understand it »

3. Our brain is story-wired
70%

4. Culture is build on stories

5. Change relies on stories that shape
an emerging culture

6. The General Relativity Theory
“Gravity is not a force but the geometry of the space-time
referential”

7. The General Relativity Theory …
explained

8. The General Relativity Theory is
A story in the elevator

9. The Storytelling Battle
Pick your Agile Story!

10. The Paris insurrection
5-6 of June, 1832
An example

11. Did you get it ?

12. 1st storytelling sprint
Tell your topic as a story

13. Storytelling Techniques
• What is your story about ?
• What are the character(s) ?
• Set the Stage! Describe the context
• What is the problem that stops the characters to
go for her quest
• The sory fire-starter
• The plot toward the outcome : hope-
achievement-delusion-hope
• The Outcome

14. 5th and 6th of June 1832
The characters

15. Did you get it ?

16. 2nd storytelling sprint
Master your story style

17. Improvement Tips
• Zoom on one character
• What is his Quest?
• Tell what is the Status Quo for him
• Contrary forces– The « Bad One »

18. 5th and 6th of June 1832
Through the eyes of one Character

19. Did you get it ?

20. References
• Dan & Chip Heath, “Made To Stick”
• Lisa Cron , “Wired for Stories”
• Michael Ballé, “The Lean Manager”
• Michael Margolis , “Believe Me”

21. Thank YOU!
Your Storytelling Host
Oana Juncu
@ojuncu
www.coemerge.com
My blog http://oanasagile.blogspot.com/