Standing Survey
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| 5 - 10 | any number | Visualisation | ||
| minutes | people | Movement |
What you can learn
This is a great technique to introduce movement into a session as well as visualising information.
What you need
Decide what questions you will ask, and how you will ask people to arrange themselves in the room.
Having some open space in a room without tables and chairs is useful.
How to do this
Ask people to stand. Explain that you want them to organise themselves in the room according to some criteria (e.g. amount of Scrum experience).
Explain how to organise themselves (e.g. a single line, with no experience near the door, and most experience near the other side of the room).
Allow time for people to move around the room.
Remind people to speak to others to see where they should stand relative to each other.
Ask people to notice where other people are relative to them.
How we’ve used this
Some ideas for criteria to organise by:
- how easy you think something will be to implement (easy: one side of the room, impossible: the other )
- how well you know people in the room (close to those you know, far from those you don’t)
- people’s roles within an organisation (a quadrant with a different role in each corner of the room)
- where people are from (in the centre: close by, edges of the room: far away).