Talk: Toast, German Markers, and You: Tips and tales from facilitating visual work

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Title:	Toast, German Markers, and You: Tips and tales from facilitating visual work
Short synopsis:	Visualizing work with maps, sketches, and pictures is an energizing way to build shared understanding on any team. Come to this active 90 minute experience to participate in visual facilitation exercises, hear specific stories of real world applications, and why they work. This session is drawn from practical, hands-on facilitation conducted over a decade in various contexts (large corporate, tech startups, and academia). This session is ideal for anyone needing to generate alignment and shared vision within product management or product design domains, cross-functional teams, or cross product scenarios. Paper, marker, and laughs provided. Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	Every organization, every team, and every person can up their game by visualizing work. For those who endeavor to be Agile, drawing, sketching, and mapping are core practices in building shared understanding. Yet facilitating visual work is a unique and rare skill - one that is best learned and co-created with colleagues in the trenches. Toast, German Markers, and You will expose some of the most compelling ways to use visual exercises, explanations of the science behind why they work, and complete with real stories of success and failure drawn from practice. You can be expected to experience and learn through specification by example a variety of techniques how to: 1. Warm up a group for design and systems thinking activities via Draw Toast; 2. Get any team to embrace frequent low-fidelity problem solving sketches with Crazy 8s; 3. Make brainstorming great again with Note'n'Vote; 4. Live a vision for a product through non-technical Specification by Example; 5. Ask better questions of groups by asking them visually; 5. Map absolutely anything, from customer-facing experiences to value streams, a team's journey or an information architecture; and finally 6. Draw stick figures and arrows well enough to get a raise. Max size: 5000 chars
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