Game Up Your BA Skills

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Does this

look

familiar?

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Rather

have

this?

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Collaborative Games: Involve

everyone & uncover hidden gems

FUN! Add energy to facilitation sessions

Reveal hidden assumptions

Participation comes naturally

Allows for creative thinking

Get the conversation going

Break down & take down walls

Illustrate differences in thinking

Selecting

the right

game

Select Select or create a suitable game

Search Search your resources

Evaluate Evaluate your audience

Establish Establish an objective

Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

Objective: Sort and organize information in a sensible way

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Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

Objective: Obtain group clarity around prioritization of projects, initiatives or features

Initiative Benefit

Shuffle

Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

Objective: Prioritize & converge upon an agreed solution

Topic

Item 1

Item 2

Item 4

Item 3

Item 5

Elicitation & Collaboration

Objective: Quickly diagnose a group's level of understanding of the steps in a process

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Elicitation & Collaboration

Objective: Obtain constructive Feedback

Topic: XYZ

Elicitation & Collaboration

Objective: Examine aspects of a situation or develop next steps

Start Stop Continue…

Things to

STOP

Things to

Continue

Things to Start

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WHAT ALTITUDE?

Satellite

Airplane

Ground

Goal of Facilitator: Draw out knowledge

A facilitator uses different skills to keep a discussion moving

Facilitators have three main responsibilities:

Make sure everyone has a chance to express their ideas

Keep the discussion moving to produce a product

Maintain a safe and respectful environment

In a group that is being facilitated well:

Each group member is treated as an expert

Each group member’s input is equal

A well-facilitated group creates a wonderful flow of ideas

Facilitator of Games: Responsibilities

State the name

Provide background information

State the objective

Provide all materials needed

Describe the procedures clearly

Provide handouts

Practice, Practice, Practice

Have a backup ready

Discuss and document team experiences and results

Discuss next steps

Game 1

Force Field

Analysis

Evaluate the forces

that affect change

Game 2

Product Box

Identify features of a

product

Game 3

Post The Path

Understanding the

steps of a process

CONVERSATION

Useable

PARTICIPATION

Game 1

Force Field

Analysis

Evaluate the forces

that affect change

Game 2

Product Box

Identify features of a

product

Game 3

Post The Path

Understanding the

steps of a process

References Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo (2010) Gamestorming: A

Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers. Sebastopol,

CA: O’Reilly Media.

Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo (2019) Gamestorming: A

Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers. Retrieved from

https://gamestorming.com/

Luke Hohmann (2018) Innovation Games. Retrieved from

https://www.innovationgames.com/

International Institute of Business Analysis. (2015) BABOK: A Guide to the

Business Analysis Body of Knowledge v3.0. Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Author

Elizabeth Larson and Richard Larson (2017) CBAP Certification Study Guide

v 3.0. Minneapolis, MN: Watermark Learning Publications