Put away your flip charts and markers. When results really matter engage your technology. In this workshop you will explore and experience the benefits of connected facilitation as it applies to facilitating a product strategy session. Bring your laptop or tablet to this session to experience the benefits firsthand. You’ll also learn about other applications for Connected Facilitation, and about your options to set up one of these amazingly productive work sessions.

1. Product Camp 2014Connected Facilitation
Product Strategy
October 11, 2014
Bob Bruce
bob.bruce@trista-tech.com
612-270-0867

2. Agenda
1.
Introduction @2min
2.
Connected SWOT exercise @15min
3.
Direct Strategy demo @5min
4.
Connected SWOT Matrix exercise @15min
5.
Traditional vs. Connected Facilitation @5min
6.
Tools and Setup Options @10min
7.
Other Use Cases @5min
8.
Questions

3. Traditional Facilitation Approaches

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Simple set-up
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Less planning: Can be ad hoc
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No tech skills required
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High-touch
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More kinesthetic
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Focus stays on facilitator
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Great for team building
Traditional Methods: Benefits and Limitations
Pro
Con
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Pen is slowserial input
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Paraphrasing inaccurate
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Difficult to capture deep argument
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Need to physically be at meeting to contribute
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Creating and publishing meaningful artifacts difficult
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Awkward processing
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Sometimes best ideas lost to power balance
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Difficult to objectively gain consensus

5. Connected Facilitation

6. Connected Method: Benefits and Limitations
Con
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Requires more planning
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Need to design for end result
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Requires some tech skills
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Technology can be a distraction
Pro
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Really efficient
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Parallel input lighting fast
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Can capture deep and complicated arguments
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Preloaded input
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Power processing and publishing—different data views
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Levels power balance, can be anonymous
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Online group voting/survey
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Synchronous/asynchronous/ remote participation

7. pCamp2014 Excercises
Results: 11 people; 5 teams; 48 strategic issues; in 12 minutes!

8. Connected Facilitation: Ways to Set Up
Method
Pros
Cons
GoogleSurvey
Easy,free,
•process as spreadsheet
•anonymous, users can be anyone
Really Limited
•Data collection only
•No authentication & permissions
•Userscan’t edit
•No user processing
•No related tables
•Doesn’t deal with rich text well
Excel Survey
Sameas above
Same as above
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL Database
You can make it do whateveryou want for the price of webhosting
Do I really need to list them?
Other CMS’s or web services
?
Theydon’t do lists like SharePoint
Non-SharePoint

9. Connected Facilitation: Ways to Set Up
Method
Pros
Cons
Hosted SharePoint 2013
•Cheap: $8.95/mo. unlimited users (Apps4Rent.com)
•Full functionality
•Related Tables
•Authenticated
•Userscan be anyone anywhere
•Need to manage usernames and passwords
•SharePoint Foundation
•Some plug-ins notavailable
CorporateSharePoint on premise
Fullfunctionality
Need to work with IT
•Tricky forexternal user’s to participate
Office 365 SharePoint 2013
•I think it’s cheap
•Full functionality + plug-ins
•Unlimitedexternal users
•Enterprise Features
Atleast one of the participants needs Office 365
SharePoint (all versions)

10. Connected Facilitation: Use Cases
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RFP Analysis & Response
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Instructional Design/ Course Development
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Requirements Gathering
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Process Standards Development
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Strategic Planning
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Project WBS Dev
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Business/Venture Planning
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Marketing Message Development
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Problem Solving/ Process Improvement
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Agile Estimating Poker

11. Contact Information:
Bob Bruce
bob.bruce@trista-tech.com
612-270-0867
Trista Technology
linked-in: www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-bruce/5/753/133/