I recently presented a LAST Anywhere workshop for participants to experience a fully remote inception where I tried to show the power of a remote-first digital collaboration approach to product and improvement discovery. The workshop was a success and thanks to the participants for a good first run!

The move to #RemoteFirst for most organisations requires a redesign of inceptions and kick-offs. Recently I helped a major Australian brand stand-up a high performing product discovery team using digital collaboration techniques in the middle of a pandemic, where many team members had never met in person!

I used a visual collaboration tool mural.co to successfully kick-off this product discovery initiative. Key agenda items included:

• Teaching participants how to use the digital collaboration tools

• Building early trust between people who have never met in person

• Defining success criteria for the initiative

• Establishing ways of working for the team

• Creating a “mission control” for visual management of the initiative

• Setting up the daily meeting online

• Running a retrospective online

I’ve made a set of three MURAL templates that allow me to instantly setup for these workshops:

• Introductions Template

• Product Discovery Template

• Team Visual Management and Retrospective Template

If you’d like to use these templates yourself, you can request access here!