{"id":3102,"date":"2020-04-23T01:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2020-04-23T05:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:10:12","slug":"lets-take-a-walk-around-the-white-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/04\/lets-take-a-walk-around-the-white-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Take a Walk Around the White Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is a basic thing to do when working as a group to create and refine ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This procedure works with just about any task where a group of persons is working together to create and refine ideas. One example is gathering requirements and creating preliminary designs. Another is outlining or formulating a document ranging from a business proposal to a script for a play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use several white boards or flip charts or whatever you have. Have on such board for each step or set of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stand at one board, work it, gather ideas from the group until the room becomes quiet for a few moments. Stop at this board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Move to the next board, work it, gather ideas from the group until the room becomes quiet for a few moments. Stop at this board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Move to the next board and repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep moving to the next board until you reach the last board and repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go back to the first board and repeat all of the above. This is the &#8220;walk around&#8221; idea. We have walked all the way around the room and we return  to the first board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review, change, and continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many times do we walk around the room? When the ideas stop, we stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is a basic thing to do when working as a group to create and refine ideas. This procedure works with just about any task where a group of persons is working together to create and refine ideas. One example is gathering requirements and creating preliminary designs. Another is outlining or formulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,32,123,43,1],"tags":[393,154,124,165],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-communication","category-group","category-ideas","category-uncategorized","tag-alternatives","tag-communication","tag-group","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}