Process Doodle

Timing: 20 mins

Ingredients:

* Whiteboards and/or flip-charts
* Markers

Directions:

Divide the participants in to groups and ask them to graphically represent their current development process. Have them think about roles, artifacts produced, and challenges. Invite them to be creative and to not worry about using any formal notation (UML, Gantt Charts, RUP, etc.). Ask them not to use people’s names, or to criticize personalities.

Each team will then then present their creation to the whole group.

Learning Points:

* This is an interesting and fun way for a facilitator to gain visibility in to what is working and what the challenges are in an organization’s current process.

* This exercise also creates more transparency within a team, by giving people a chance to see how others characterize the process.