Intro to Multiverse Mapping
Ever been in a meeting that was too high level, too big picture – so much that it was kinda divorced from reality?
Or been in a meeting that went far down into fine technical details that you lost track of what you were trying to do in the first place?
These are challenges of granularity. Different people feel more comfortable at different levels of granularity. You can't make them prefer a different level. And you wouldn't want to, because there's value in every perspective.
Instead, you can use visual facilitation to connect all the levels. My favourite quick and easy tool for this is a Multiverse Map – a flexible blend of opportunity trees, user story maps, funnels and flywheels that's simple to put together along with your team.
When you master Multiverse Maps, you'll be able to:
zoom in to the details without losing track of the bigger picture
tether wild pie-in-the-sky ideas back to reality
clarify and simplify strategy
influence decisions and roadmaps
spot experience gaps and technical problems before you start building
expose critical risks, questions and puzzles
open the door to research, experiments and probes
In this event, we're going to practice Multiverse Mapping from scratch. I'll introduce the tool, we'll do group practice with some worked examples, and we'll leave some time for Q&A.