The Visual Agile Coach What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Turn things upside down and take a look from a different perspective by asking: 

What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

What is the What Can Possibly Go Wrong? all about?

There's an old-English saying that fore-warned is forearmed - and that is where the Visual Agile Coach took its inspiration from for this workshop.

Being warned or cautioned about something before it happens is a great way to prepare and get ready for the real event.

Give yourself the best chance of success with the "What Can Possibly Go Wrong" workshop, use to identify:

• Potential failures

• Challenges

• Risks

before they happen and turn impeding disaster and terrible ideas into opportunities for creative solutions and success.

"What Can Possibly Go Wrong" purposefully creates pressure, adversity and a pinch of desperation because these emotions can bring out the best in us.

When our backs are against the wall we need to be creative, resourceful and a little more brilliant.

Combine exercises for comprehensive results or use them individually.

When to use the WCPGW?

• Starting a new iteration, project, or assignment

• Ideating a new product, service, or strategy

• Constructing a Team Roadmap

• Launching an Agile Release Train or change programme

• Planning for change management, risks, and issues

Visual Agile Coaching Tips

• Begin with clear goals and objectives to ground the exercises.

• Consider crazy ideas - some may hide game-changing potential

• Ask What Can Possibly Go Wrong? because sometimes the counterintuitive is the way. The contrarian is the visionary

Each of these four exercises has a serious purpose, it’s just that a serious purpose can be serious fun too!

The Individual Tools

• Pre-Mortem: A simple technique used to identify risks and problems that may arise during and activity.

• Scrapyard Challenge: For resourcefulness, building something new with limited resources, searching out solutions in unlikely places.

• Do Your Absolute Worst: By identifying what not to do, we'll find the right path by doing the opposite.

• I Wouldn’t Start From Here: For getting everyone to the same starting point.

This tool and many more are available in the Visual Agile Coach Playbook available from online bookshops and at Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Agile-Coach-Playbook-communication/dp/1780176619