A way of working workshop helps teams design how they collaborate — from meeting rhythms and communication norms to decision-making and delivery practices. These 25+ methods cover every step.
Stop letting your ways of working happen by accident. Design them deliberately.
Plan your way of working workshopStart with an honest current-state assessment, then co-design the team's operating model and formalize commitments.
Phase 1
Opening (9:00–10:30)
Understand how the team currently works — the good, the bad, and the habits nobody has named yet. Honest data before solutions.
Phase 2
Morning (10:30–12:00)
Surface friction, bottlenecks, and gaps in the current way of working. Make the invisible visible.
Phase 3
Afternoon (13:00–14:30)
Co-design the team's ideal way of working. Define rituals, decision-making, communication norms, and delivery patterns.
Phase 4
Late Afternoon (14:30–16:00)
Formalize the agreements and operating model. Document roles, rituals, and norms that everyone has committed to.
Phase 5
Closing (16:00–17:00)
Plan how to make the new way of working stick. Schedule the first retrospective to check in on progress.
Organized by purpose. Click any method to see full instructions, tips, and facilitation guidance.
Popularised by Spotify, the Team Health Check is a regular ritual where teams self-assess across key dimensions of he…
A simple daily mood-tracking practice where each team member marks their mood at the end of each day on a shared cale…
This workshop helps teams reflect on their alignment with shared goals while enhancing individual autonomy. Focus on …
Circles of Influence is a strategic method to identify and leverage your network for achieving business goals. It hel…
A collaborative process for establishing explicit agreements about how a team will work together. Unlike imposed rule…
The Code of Conduct method helps establish a shared understanding of group values and behaviors to foster mutual trus…
A collaborative session for a team to define their shared standard for when work is truly complete. A strong Definiti…
A team agreement that defines the minimum criteria a backlog item must meet before it can be pulled into a Sprint. Th…
A daily time-boxed synchronisation ritual from Scrum, run standing up to encourage brevity. Each team member answers …
A structured but agenda-less meeting format developed by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith. Participants propose topic…
A recurring collaborative session where the Product Owner and development team review, clarify, estimate, and priorit…
Check-in and check-out are simple processes that allow team members to express their current feelings and reflections…
Actions for Retrospectives is a structured method to help teams reflect on past projects or events and identify actio…
This method encourages team members to provide constructive feedback to enhance trust and communication. Participants…
Start, Stop, Continue is a straightforward feedback method that helps teams evaluate their actions and develop clear …
A visual workflow management system that maps work items through defined stages (columns) with explicit limits on how…
Personal Kanban is a visual tool for organizing tasks to enhance efficiency and productivity. It's ideal for individu…
Created by Alberto Brandolini, Event Storming is a collaborative modelling workshop that brings together developers a…
A prioritisation game developed by Luke Hohmann where participants spend a limited budget of play money to 'buy' feat…
Build The Checklist is a structured method for teams to create a comprehensive and prioritized list of tasks. This he…
Developed by Jurgen Appelo as part of Management 3.0, Delegation Poker uses playing cards to make delegation levels e…
Ecocycle Planning is a strategic tool that helps teams evaluate their activities through the lenses of four developme…
The Context Map helps visualize the external factors influencing an organization. It's a collaborative tool for ident…
The Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight. Us…
Participants are assigned specific discussion roles (e.g. spokesperson, devil's advocate, notetaker) via cards, then …
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