Goal → An exercise to get to the essence of your lab and help you establish mission and vision.
Time it takes → 1 hour sprint
When to do it → At the beginning of your journey. Make a habit to ask yourself if your daily lab activities are connected to your project’s essence.
Who participates → Do it within your lab team initially. In a more advanced version, each stakeholder completes one. Then stakeholders come together to share ideas, particularly focusing on similarities. The dissimilarities provide an opportunity to understand stakeholder differences.
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Goal → Establishing your project vision. Creating a clear, shared image of what your project and its impact will look like in years.
Time → 30 minutes
When → At the beginning of your journey. You can repeat periodically throughout the project journey to understand if you’re on track or if you need to modify your mission to meet your vision.
Who → Do this yourself or within your team to create a collective newspaper header. In a more advanced version, each stakeholder completes one regarding their participation in the project. Stakeholders can then share their individual newspapers and work to create one all together. This also provides an opportunity to understand how stakeholders’ interests interact.
How → Using the template below, create a lead headline for the newspaper, which is dated on the final day of the project. The headline could announce the achievement of the project goal, attainment of the mission or resolution of a problem. If working in a group - share your headlines!
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