Group Partners creates innovative solutions for clients through strategy, transformation, and change work. They use structured visual and rigorous approaches to solve complex problems, including tools and techniques to communicate with stakeholders. Their typical process involves learning about the background, questioning assumptions to surface key themes, and designing interactive sessions to accelerate decision making and ensure the right solutions are developed. They work closely with clients and aim to fully understand the context and objectives to create differentiated outcomes.
From Classroom to Zoom - How to Adapt to Our New Virtual WorldAgile Montréal
This year we have had to reinvent ourselves. Gone are in-person interactions, only to be replaced by the cold glow of our computer monitors. The nature of virtual interaction is inherently different than in-person interaction, and this talk aims to explore just that. We look at how you should approach the two in different ways, and we aim to give you the tools and knowledge you need to successfully lead virtual meetings, training, and work-session with others.
Daniel Tardif
B. den Haak. How to make OKRs Lean AgainAgile Lietuva
OKRs are a goal-setting, strategy execution tool that involves setting ambitious goals that lead to measurable results. The thing is, over the years, OKRs have gotten too complicated - they need to be put on a diet - and that’s where Lean OKRs step in. They are hyper-focused on one single OKR to rule all others. Often, OKRs are not set up for success and thus tossed aside.
There are four (and a half) common reasons why your OKRs aren’t working. Among them, the importance of finding a rhythm for making OKRs part of your way of working, leading teams with trust, and getting the foundation in place so teams aren’t running before they learn how to walk.
Let's collaborate remotely - Simon JaillaisSimon JAILLAIS
With an increasing number of teams working remotely, work efficiency tends to drop, along with the weakening of relationship and collaboration between members. Simon shares the value and challenges of remote working and how to keep teams motivated.
Peter Levesque, of the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, presentation to the 2013 Plain Language International Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada, October 11, 2013
From Classroom to Zoom - How to Adapt to Our New Virtual WorldAgile Montréal
This year we have had to reinvent ourselves. Gone are in-person interactions, only to be replaced by the cold glow of our computer monitors. The nature of virtual interaction is inherently different than in-person interaction, and this talk aims to explore just that. We look at how you should approach the two in different ways, and we aim to give you the tools and knowledge you need to successfully lead virtual meetings, training, and work-session with others.
Daniel Tardif
B. den Haak. How to make OKRs Lean AgainAgile Lietuva
OKRs are a goal-setting, strategy execution tool that involves setting ambitious goals that lead to measurable results. The thing is, over the years, OKRs have gotten too complicated - they need to be put on a diet - and that’s where Lean OKRs step in. They are hyper-focused on one single OKR to rule all others. Often, OKRs are not set up for success and thus tossed aside.
There are four (and a half) common reasons why your OKRs aren’t working. Among them, the importance of finding a rhythm for making OKRs part of your way of working, leading teams with trust, and getting the foundation in place so teams aren’t running before they learn how to walk.
Let's collaborate remotely - Simon JaillaisSimon JAILLAIS
With an increasing number of teams working remotely, work efficiency tends to drop, along with the weakening of relationship and collaboration between members. Simon shares the value and challenges of remote working and how to keep teams motivated.
Peter Levesque, of the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, presentation to the 2013 Plain Language International Association Conference in Vancouver, Canada, October 11, 2013
Tools and Resources for New Product Development: The Discovery PhaseDialexa
There is no shortage of information about new product development process for software on the Internet - and while it's great to have access to so much information, it can also be overwhelming - especially when you're new to the subject matter.
With that in mind, we thought it would be helpful to provide links to some of the tools and resources that we use or have used to inform our process. So without further ado, let's start at the beginning with the tools and resources we use in the discovery phase.
Full write-up: https://by.dialexa.com/tools-and-resources-for-new-product-developmentdiscovery-phase
Geekcamp Indonesia 2017 : Agile Product ManagementMichael Ong
Agile Product Management
About This Talk (25 min)
Great products rarely happen by luck — they involve careful planning, consideration, and management. In this talk, you'll learn how to put together a product or project roadmap that inspires by studying and applying an objective and collaborative prioritization method that balances both value and effort, helping stakeholders focus on what's important and come to consensus.
Outline/structure for the Session
Product Ownership
Product Vision to Roadmap
Case study
Takeaways
Set product or project goals based on company strategic goals
Learn the art of shuttle diplomacy as a way to get buy-in on your priorities
Target Audience
Product Heads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Designers, Team Leads
About the Speaker
Michael ONG is Coach and Founder Mentor @ The Collab Folks, an Agile, Product Management & User Experience coaching company started in Singapore. A relatively young partnership with Ruth HO and Lena QUEK, it brings together Michael’s 16 years consulting in the tech space, delivering a spectrum of projects for Mobile Payments, Logistics Tracking & Surveying, Cleaning Inspection, Merchant Monitoring, Online E-Commerce and Real Estate Portals.
Michael has worked with startups to MNCs in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Australia. He is passionate about helping founders chart a path towards growth and currently provides startup mentoring and team coaching in the topics of Agility, User Experience and Product Management.
Michael also speaks on the topic of Agility, User Experience and Product Management. He is involved with local community Agile Singapore and is also a co-organiser with UX Singapore and Product Works, the latter of which aims to bridge product teams in Asia.
http://thecollabfolks.com/partner-profiles/michael-ong/
The web is not a fixed width. So if the medium is fluid, should the process be fixed? Open source evangelist Steve Fisher prefers designing within the browser, especially when responsive design is a requirement since Fireworks and Photoshop are not flexible enough to demonstrate media queries, button and menu states, HTML5 and JavaScript behaviors, dynamic resizing of elements and navigation flow.
Learn how to develop a fluid process to match the fluidity of interactive design as Steve shows you why a responsive process is a responsible process. He’ll explore some of his recent work helping clients transform their processes to fit a responsive workflow and share some of the tips, techniques and processes he’s developed. One web to rule them all!
This presentation is part of a Citrix Labs workshop introducing the concepts of rapid prototyping for developers. It focuses on the creation of early samples, models, or releases of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
A small story about Open Source projects' specificities. This presentation has been designed for non technical profiles with no previous experience in Open Source projects
Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologiesinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the hpc-ch forum on Cloud and Containers, Sergio Maffioletti from the University of Zurich presents: Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologies.
"Reproducing published experiments or extending existing data analysis pipelines is a challenge that is becoming increasingly prevalent in the wider research community. In this talk, an overview of the challenges faced by both research infrastructure providers and Science IT units are presented, along with best practices to improve the reproducibility of data analysis using cloud and container technologies."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kjB
Learn more: https://www.hpc-ch.org/hpc-ch-forum-on-cloud-and-containers-highlights/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
How to Internationalize Products by fmr Condé Nast Int. PMProduct School
- Understand when you're ready to localise your product and how to avoid acquiring unnecessary tech debt in this area
- Learn how to have a solid localisation set up regardless of your budget and the challenges between mobile-web and native apps
- How to make the copywriter on your team like you (best practices when it comes to localise a product)
I've spent the last years modelling complex businesses and Software Architectures with EventStorming. The original recipe evolved a lot from the initial one. This is EventStorming state of the art.
'A jelly startup can grow a spine with agile pm' by Stelios SbyrakisCoLab Athens
“Can a Jelly startup grow a spine? Agile PM may just do that” The usual startup story and the need to define, commit and check on the critical 4Ws (Who does What, When and Why)
High Quality, Low Budget: How to not go broke while making great contentRichard Harrington
Creating a quality production has much more to do with planning than spending money. In this class, you’ll learn effective strategies that work to improve the quality of any project. Learn essential project management skills to improve your planning abilities. Discover how to write a treatment or outline as well as when to use a script. Plus, tie it all together with these budget trimming ideas.
From design to testing, feature prioritization and delivery, developers are often asked to make critical UX design decisions. But we got your back with this day-long workshop about how to level up your work without having to get into some skinny jeans.
Open World Forum - The Agile and Open Source WayAlexis Monville
Slides from Open World Forum 2013 (#OWF13)
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
Visual Culture: How Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram Drive Social Med...John Caswell
Visual content is disrupting the web and real world. This panel will focus on key strategies used across creative industries, such as Media, Fashion, Music, Food and Entertainment that demonstrates how the use of Visual Storytelling is driving engagement with Consumers and Fans. The panel will discuss how each panelist is using photography, video and visual across social platforms such as pinterest, instagram and tumblr to tell stories to delight, educate and connect with their customers.
Tools and Resources for New Product Development: The Discovery PhaseDialexa
There is no shortage of information about new product development process for software on the Internet - and while it's great to have access to so much information, it can also be overwhelming - especially when you're new to the subject matter.
With that in mind, we thought it would be helpful to provide links to some of the tools and resources that we use or have used to inform our process. So without further ado, let's start at the beginning with the tools and resources we use in the discovery phase.
Full write-up: https://by.dialexa.com/tools-and-resources-for-new-product-developmentdiscovery-phase
Geekcamp Indonesia 2017 : Agile Product ManagementMichael Ong
Agile Product Management
About This Talk (25 min)
Great products rarely happen by luck — they involve careful planning, consideration, and management. In this talk, you'll learn how to put together a product or project roadmap that inspires by studying and applying an objective and collaborative prioritization method that balances both value and effort, helping stakeholders focus on what's important and come to consensus.
Outline/structure for the Session
Product Ownership
Product Vision to Roadmap
Case study
Takeaways
Set product or project goals based on company strategic goals
Learn the art of shuttle diplomacy as a way to get buy-in on your priorities
Target Audience
Product Heads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Designers, Team Leads
About the Speaker
Michael ONG is Coach and Founder Mentor @ The Collab Folks, an Agile, Product Management & User Experience coaching company started in Singapore. A relatively young partnership with Ruth HO and Lena QUEK, it brings together Michael’s 16 years consulting in the tech space, delivering a spectrum of projects for Mobile Payments, Logistics Tracking & Surveying, Cleaning Inspection, Merchant Monitoring, Online E-Commerce and Real Estate Portals.
Michael has worked with startups to MNCs in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Australia. He is passionate about helping founders chart a path towards growth and currently provides startup mentoring and team coaching in the topics of Agility, User Experience and Product Management.
Michael also speaks on the topic of Agility, User Experience and Product Management. He is involved with local community Agile Singapore and is also a co-organiser with UX Singapore and Product Works, the latter of which aims to bridge product teams in Asia.
http://thecollabfolks.com/partner-profiles/michael-ong/
The web is not a fixed width. So if the medium is fluid, should the process be fixed? Open source evangelist Steve Fisher prefers designing within the browser, especially when responsive design is a requirement since Fireworks and Photoshop are not flexible enough to demonstrate media queries, button and menu states, HTML5 and JavaScript behaviors, dynamic resizing of elements and navigation flow.
Learn how to develop a fluid process to match the fluidity of interactive design as Steve shows you why a responsive process is a responsible process. He’ll explore some of his recent work helping clients transform their processes to fit a responsive workflow and share some of the tips, techniques and processes he’s developed. One web to rule them all!
This presentation is part of a Citrix Labs workshop introducing the concepts of rapid prototyping for developers. It focuses on the creation of early samples, models, or releases of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
A small story about Open Source projects' specificities. This presentation has been designed for non technical profiles with no previous experience in Open Source projects
Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologiesinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the hpc-ch forum on Cloud and Containers, Sergio Maffioletti from the University of Zurich presents: Towards Reproducible Data Analysis Using Cloud and Container Technologies.
"Reproducing published experiments or extending existing data analysis pipelines is a challenge that is becoming increasingly prevalent in the wider research community. In this talk, an overview of the challenges faced by both research infrastructure providers and Science IT units are presented, along with best practices to improve the reproducibility of data analysis using cloud and container technologies."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kjB
Learn more: https://www.hpc-ch.org/hpc-ch-forum-on-cloud-and-containers-highlights/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
How to Internationalize Products by fmr Condé Nast Int. PMProduct School
- Understand when you're ready to localise your product and how to avoid acquiring unnecessary tech debt in this area
- Learn how to have a solid localisation set up regardless of your budget and the challenges between mobile-web and native apps
- How to make the copywriter on your team like you (best practices when it comes to localise a product)
I've spent the last years modelling complex businesses and Software Architectures with EventStorming. The original recipe evolved a lot from the initial one. This is EventStorming state of the art.
'A jelly startup can grow a spine with agile pm' by Stelios SbyrakisCoLab Athens
“Can a Jelly startup grow a spine? Agile PM may just do that” The usual startup story and the need to define, commit and check on the critical 4Ws (Who does What, When and Why)
High Quality, Low Budget: How to not go broke while making great contentRichard Harrington
Creating a quality production has much more to do with planning than spending money. In this class, you’ll learn effective strategies that work to improve the quality of any project. Learn essential project management skills to improve your planning abilities. Discover how to write a treatment or outline as well as when to use a script. Plus, tie it all together with these budget trimming ideas.
From design to testing, feature prioritization and delivery, developers are often asked to make critical UX design decisions. But we got your back with this day-long workshop about how to level up your work without having to get into some skinny jeans.
Open World Forum - The Agile and Open Source WayAlexis Monville
Slides from Open World Forum 2013 (#OWF13)
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
Visual Culture: How Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram Drive Social Med...John Caswell
Visual content is disrupting the web and real world. This panel will focus on key strategies used across creative industries, such as Media, Fashion, Music, Food and Entertainment that demonstrates how the use of Visual Storytelling is driving engagement with Consumers and Fans. The panel will discuss how each panelist is using photography, video and visual across social platforms such as pinterest, instagram and tumblr to tell stories to delight, educate and connect with their customers.
The 21st Century Demands new tools to solve the problems it now has. These tools and techniques have proven to solve the important issues of business and government in over 2000 cases.
1. G R O U P P A R T N E R S
W H A T W E D O O N A T Y P I C A L C A S E
2. GROUP PARTNERS creates innovative a nd dif ferentiated
soluti ons for its clients. We do this in the a reas of strateg y,
tra nsformation a nd cha nge .
We create high energ y via our a pproach - world class
f acilitation - decision quality - delivering proven outcomes.
We have developed structured visual a nd rigorous a pproaches
to complex problems together with the tools a nd techniques to
tell compelling multi-sta keholder stories at the top level
3. At the sta rt of a n assignment we get f a milia r with as much
backg round information as we ca n…
4. WE IMAGINE A
D I F F E R E N T F U T U R E …
We question, challenge and force
critical thinking.
We do this to surface the key
themes – create solutions or new
approaches. This a proven approach
that understands and engages the
wider context we need to work
within.
We look at the important
‘context’ with a consumer’s
eyes…
5. Ahead of interactive sessions we will work with a team directly or
remotely – on conference calls - to get everyone comfortable with
all aspects of the program – ensuring expectations are managed.
6. We will decide which of the following 4D™ frameworks would be
applied to the task. 1. Discovering what we could do, 2. Developing
what we should do, 3. Deciding what we will do and 4. Deploying
what we agreed we would do
7.
8. We will agree a valid ‘Exam Question’ – one that will work for initial team
sessions and then perhaps others for later phases…
9. We then fully explore the teams understanding and expectations of the
objectives within the widest context to create differentiation and innovation…
10. Stimulus material and some homework might be needed to gain a fast start
– we want to ensure program readiness to avoid wasting valuable time. This
can also ensure that certain ‘givens’ are already accounted for…
11. Designing the ‘program’…
We will often create a ‘Persistent
Architecture™’ to force rigor and bring
any best practice to bear ahead of the
key interactive meetings.
This will encourage sharper thinking -
accelerate decision making - increasing
the opportunity to do the right things.
Right.
12. We arrive well ahead of session days - get the area prepared with all initial
structures in place. All of this ensures effective intervention time…
13. We work with the team to get them fully aligned – we become a full part of
the team for the duration of the assignment and beyond - as required…
14. We work with the team to weave any specific ‘solution’ requirements into the overall
business requirements – improving interoperability and ensuring business integ rity…
16. We challenge the teams with a mixture of respect and deep curiosity, actively
listening to encourage a different type of thinking…
17. We then synthesize all related and valid content within decision structures …
18. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
We encourage high-energy and genuine engagement amongst senior teams…
19. By developing visual stimulus materials we can encourage meaningful
involvement and understanding by wider stakeholders communities…
20. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
We will keep up to date a fully integrated ‘book of record’ of the
development work. This ensures ‘real-time’ availability of important
executive summaries and artifacts as the assignment evolves…
21. We create a positioning for the strategic work against compelling ‘value
propositions’ which naturally emerge throughout the process…
22. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
We build decision tools - criteria-based frameworks - enabling the whole
team to understand and make high quality decisions…
23. This framework is 40 feet x 8 feet and was fully developed over 4 days with ~20 people…
After each stage of the process we publish high resolution images of the work
done for use in multiple media and over a wide variety of applications
…accommodating large scale teams and environments…
This framework is 50 feet x 8 feet and was fully developed over 3 days with ~70 people…
24. If any of the artifacts we create
need to act as a communication
device we can choose to develop
more sophisticated digital images
for onward formal presentations
and application…
…accommodating large scale teams and environments…
25. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
After each session we generate a written narrative of the work done to date…
26. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
We sometimes build large scale ‘presentation support’ for stakeholder
engagement and other important presentation requirements…
27. In some cases the team will continue, between phases, to collect new data
and test further assumptions within ‘Blueprints’ and detailed frameworks…
Break out sessions and deep dives will use structured
ar3facts and blueprints to develop thinking…
28. …accommodating large scale teams and environments…
A t t h e e n d o f e a c h p h a s e w e w i l l c re a t e a d e t a i l e d E xe c u t i v e S u m m a r y …
29. We w i l l b u i l d a ‘ Wo rk b o o k ’ w i t h a f u l l
re c o rd t o g e t h e r w i t h t h e n e x t a c t i o n s o r
a s s i s t a n c e f o r f u rt h e r wo rk .
T h e s e w i l l b e b u i l t i n a c c o rd a n c e w i t h
t h e s t ru c t u re d p h a s e s w i t h i n s u s t a i n e d
p ro g ra m s o f wo rk …
…accommodating large scale teams and environments…
30. T h e m a i n ‘ s y m b o l s ’ - t h e ke y ‘ i m a g e s ’
o f t h e c o n t e n t w e c re a t e - w i l l b e
widely used to support documents,
p ro p o s a l s a n d i n f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n
and communication…
31. We ca n create a Digital
System for Enterprise
Communication…
This is a interactive system of all
the content and visual outcomes.
These systems dynamically enable
m u l t i s t a ke h o l d e r v i e w s o f t h e
i m p o r t a n t s t r a t e g y, o p e r a t i o n a l
a p p ro a c h o r p l a n s
32. We w i l l c re a t e a G ro u p D ri v e s p a c e w i t h s e c u re a c c e s s t o t h e i m a g e s
a n d t h e w ri t t e n re c o rd f o r t h e d u r a t i o n o f t h e a s s i g n m e n t
33. We will stay in touch with the team for weeks and often months to ensure
that the material we create remains the most valuable support possible!
34. Interactive Explanations of What We Do:
Interactive Explanation - Discovery and Development - A quick link to a visual gizmo
http://johncaswell.com/groupPartners/scroller.html illustrating the primary modules in the Discovery and Development frameworks. These
devices are known as a Vizmo™ and they are often part of the deliverables of a session.
The Discovery and Development Approach and the sequence explained - http://www.grouppartners.net/vizmo/svt This
Vizmo™ follows the order in which the intervention sessions occur and explains the value accrued at each step - The Sequenced Vizmo™
Group Partners Overviews:
Explaining Our Niche – Download Group Partners Global Context https://wss.grouppartners.net/QuickLink/b77063f748e0f2ba5
Explaining Our Methods - Download Structured Visual Thinking™ The 4D™ Approach
https://wss.grouppartners.net/QuickLink/f6ad12f1490d8f7c2
Innovation Lounge™:
Download the ‘Innovation Lounge™’ https://wss.grouppartners.net/QuickLink/100b9bbc48f0c3cde to explain an ideal environment
for better thinking. Creativity, innovation, energy and practicality combined. To see the innovation approach as an animated file – click on
this link to the ‘Fast Guide’ http://www.grouppartners.net/gallery/index.php?path=gallery1
Animations of what we do - http://www.grouppartners.net/video/index4.html A preview of work in progress animations of our
working approach designed to explain how we approach what we do at Group Partners
Session Room Expectations – Download a short visual document to illustrate the environments we work in
https://wss.grouppartners.net/QuickLink/89bcdc7a49280cac2 and what a 4D™ session might feel like.