Liberating Structures and (distributed) Scrum Events

For an upcoming meetup I’m preparing a session on how to use LS for Scrum Events and especially events where the participants are distributed and joining the event remotely.

Here’s a brief overview of some LS that can be used for the different Scrum events. I’ve marked all structures with an * that I’ve used myself in a distributed setting.

Refinement / Planning

• *1-2-4-All (examples)
• WINFY – What I Need From You (examples)
• Improv Prototyping (examples)
• *Troika Consulting (examples)
• *TRIZ (examples)
• Ecocycle Planning (examples)
• *Nine Whys (examples)
• Wicked Questions
• Integrated~Autonomy
• *Min Specs
• *Conversation Café (examples)
• *Celebrity Interview
• Critical Uncertainties (examples)
• Panarchy
• P2P – Purpose-To-Practice
• Future~Present (examples)

Daily Scrum

• *1-2-4-All (examples)
• *W³ – What, So What, Now What (examples)
• Design StoryBoards
• *15% Solutions (examples)
• *Conversation Café (examples)

Sprint Review

• 10×10 Writing (examples)
• *1-2-4-All (examples)
• Shift & Share
• Wise Crowds
• Caravan (mash of Shift & Share with Wise Crowds)
• Gallery Walk (examples, examples)
• *UX Fishbowl (examples)
• *15% Solutions (examples)
• Troika Consulting (examples)
• *W³ – What, So What, Now What (examples)
• 25/10 Crowd Sourcing (examples)
• Ecocycle Planning (examples)
• Open Space Technology
• Min Specs (examples)
• Mad Tea (examples)
• Ecocycle Planning (examples)

Sprint Retrospective

• *1-2-4-All (examples)
• *W3 – What, So What, Now What (examples)
• *15% Solutions (examples)
• Troika Consulting (examples)
• *Appreciative Interviews (examples)
• Ecocycle Planning (examples)
• *TRIZ (examples)
• *Nine Whys (examples)
• DAD – Discovery & Action Dialogue
• Helping Heuristics
• *Conversation Café (examples)
• HSR – Heard, Seen, Respected
• Positive Gossip
• 25/10 Crowd Sourcing (examples)
• *Spiral Journal
• Myth Turning (examples)
• Critical Uncertainties (examples)

On the liberating Structures website you can find a design checklist for virtual meetings. Since the link is currently no longer working, you can find the document here: