Cracking Big Rocks

(Large Problems Don’t Talk Back)

Workplace

Personal

Other

Finding Rocks

© Paul Stapleton

Where Do Your Rocks Lie?

Geological Patterns

Share Your Rock

Small Groups:

What Makes Your Rocks Big?

Why Do You Think That?

Rock Sizing

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Pick a ‘Rock’ to work on Agree Roles

Miner (aka Seeker)

Goal: Identify actionable strategies, next steps and way-points

Geologists (Coaches)

Goal: Help The Miner to achieve their goal, using Rock Cards as cues

when needed

Monitor (Observer) Goal: Watch for strategy impact and

effectiveness. Feed back after exercise

Rock Mining

Formations:

Framing The Problem

Getting Started

Keeping Rolling

Saving

Progress

Traps

The Rubber Duck

Sharing & Pairing

Stop The Bleeding

Maintenance Payments

Reduce, Don’t Solve

Strategies

“See, isn’t this neat? Here we were thinking all we had was one big problem when in actual fact we have hundreds of little problems that we gotta sort out before we even get to the big problem, which means we’re like everybody else in the world.”

Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Charles, Pushing Daisies

Simon Cromarty Simon.Cromarty@red-gate.com http://red-gate.com Captain@theagilepirate.net http://theagilepirate.net

Johanna Hunt

Johanna.Hunt@amido.co.uk http://amido.co.uk Johanna.Hunt@eventyr.co.uk http://eventyr.co.uk