Episode 46: How to plan and run a discovery workshop

What is a discovery workshop and how can they be used to work through problems in your business? In this episode, James and Josh discuss how they've run them in the past and offer some tips and tricks to getting the most out of these sessions. Listen now for a brand new instalment of Off Script! 00:00 Introduction 01:00 What is a discovery workshop 02:00 Using Miro 02:30 Slideument - slide deck with a documents worth of content 03:00 Use the right medium to foster discussion 04:00 Break workshop sessions into two 05:00 Use other physical spaces to inspire 06:00 Framing the problem but not steering 07:00 Amazon's idea - Write the Press Release 08:00 What are the challenges, resources, and politics? 09:00 What would the bad press be? 10:00 How to be honest and open? 11:00 Creating a safe environment 14:00 Find out what they want from the session 16:00 90 min cycles of energy 17:00 Risk register 18:00 Walk and talk to reenergise 20:00 Keeping discussions on track 21:00 Capturing and processing the data 22:00 Using AI to digitise and distribute 23:00 The next steps 23:30 One Two Three All 26:00 Handy thing to do to unblock Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax