I haven't been posting much recently as we have been gearing up for the busiest part of the year for our Ignites, with 5 scheduled across...

There is always one! At the end of every Ignite workshop we do a quick “fist to five” vote to gauge confidence in the plan and obtain a...

Recently I facilitated my 200th Ignite workshop! Ignite is a term I use for Big Room Planning, PI Planning, or any other type of highly...

An Ignite is much more than a collaborative planning workshop. It is the start of the exciting journey where the transformation of a...

Magic always happens at an Ignite Workshop It is where hundreds of initiatives spread across multiple siloed organisational units quickly...

The second Magic Moment during our Ignites occurs when the team collectively agrees on the overall plan estimates. We started with a...

We commence a typical Ignite day with a long list of Initiatives, or if it’s a Project, a long list of features or high-level...

Superheroes have always existed among us They are working alongside you as I write this The Insights Discovery diagnostic will help you...

Getting ready for one of our biggest Ignites/Insights workshops bringing together 40 superheroes discovering their superpowers and...

Delivery Analysts are critical to the success of every Ignite workshop we run. They have to learn quickly to respond and adapt to...

There is rarely any fat in our Ignite workshops. We usually have less than an hour or two to get through a very long list of initiatives....

One of the things I love observing during an Ignite workshop is how the most obvious high-priority initiatives quickly become not really...

An approved budget doesn’t necessarily equate to available capacity. This is a hard reality that I make sure I get across in all of the...

Coming into an Ignite workshop, we often see the following three anxieties emerge: Have I missed an initiative or requirement? Have I...

Few things give us more anxiety than having to provide and commit to an estimate of work, particularly given it may come back to bite you....

Ignite Challenge #2 Breaking down Silos When we brief participants ahead of an Ignite, we explain that our goal is to have a prioritised...

So what are some of the most common challenges we face when running Ignites? Over the next few days, I will share the top challenges we...

The most common challenges you will face when organizing and running an Ignite workshop, and how we overcome each one. I recently...

A goal of an Ignite is to achieve a ranked list of initiatives across an organisation, and then monitor the portfolio as a collective...

I hate when this happens!!! When we run an Ignite workshop, we first rank initiatives within their respective streams. This gives us a...