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Wed, 23 Jun 2004

At Agile Development Conference 2004: a LAWST extension

I'm at ADC, and I'll be posting occasional thoughts in this blog category.

Ole Larson did a session on customer collaboration. He ran it in something like the LAWST format. The neat extension was that, in the beginning, the participants broke into pairs. Each person explained her story to her pair, taking exactly five minutes. Then the pair reciprocated. Then the pairs coalesced into quartets, and each person in the quartet again explained her story to the other three. Then the quartets decided which of the four stories would be presented to the whole group, in the conventional tell-the-story, clarifying-questions, open-game format.

The advantages? The story gets more concise and clear each time, and the whole group's time isn't spent on a suboptimal story.

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