 Okay. Hi everyone. Thanks so much for joining us. We weren't expecting such a big venue and such a big crowd, so we're really honoured. My name's Talia. I'm an Agile Coach from South Africa, Johannesburg. And then by night, my side company is doing graphic recording and visuals. So this is what I love. Hi everyone. My name's Angie Doyle. I'm also an Agile Coach from South Africa. Talia briefly touched on it. We weren't expecting such a big room, so we, there are a difference in the booklets. Agile India very kindly helped us with generating some more booklets that are at the back. But don't worry, the booklets are available for download afterwards. So if you didn't get a colour copy, you can print one out. Okay. So we will be tweeting out the link a little bit later. Okay. Awesome. So welcome. I hope everyone's got their drawing hands ready and nimble. Did everybody know that this was a drawing workshop? You know you're going to be drawing, right? Please don't leave. It's fun. Okay. Just checking. Okay. So maybe just to set the scene a bit. This workshop is geared towards using visual techniques, so visual thinking techniques for teen communication. So it's not about being an amazing artist. It's not about perfection. It's about equipping you with some techniques and some practice, so that hopefully when you go back to your teams, you'll have the confidence to pick up a pen and to use it in your collaboration. So I just want to know by show of hands, how many of you were once children? Please, I hope everyone. Yeah. Hoping everyone's got the hands. How many of you loved to draw as a child? Yeah. A lot of, a lot of hands still up. How many of you still love to draw? Yeah. So we got quite a couple of artists. So just like Talia said, we're introducing you to the basics. If you are a modern day Da Vinci, you can probably come up and join us just now and help us go through some of the basic concepts. For the rest of you that are a little bit nervous about drawing, you're going to grab a pen and we're going to draw something together. This is going to be the hardest thing you are going to do the whole day. You're going to follow my instructions. So open up your booklets on the first page. It says you're drawing here. If you don't have a booklet, grab some blank paper because I don't think every seat has a booklet. And you're going to follow exactly what I do. Okay. It's hard working with a microphone in one hand. Okay. In the middle of your page, you are going to draw a nice big square just like this. Nice big square. Okay. You got your big square in the middle. That's the one. Then you're going to draw a really big half circle at the top. And then you're going to draw a medium circle next half circle next to it. Can everyone see? Maybe just maneuver around so you can see. Yeah. It's going to be hard to position the flip chart. And then next to it, a little smaller half circle. Okay. On the right hand side of the block, you're going to do a funny upside like angled triangle. Next to it, you're going to do a slightly smaller one. And next to it, a slightly smaller one. Know what we got so far? At the top here on the top left hand side of your block, you're going to draw a nice big triangle over here. A smaller triangle just underneath it. You're going to do a little bit like this design, these semicircles. You're going to do a small one, a slightly bigger one and a bigger one from the top right to the bottom left. Anybody got an idea of what we're drawing so far? You're going to draw a big circle there in the top left. And in that circle, you're going to draw a smaller circle. You're going to color that one in. And then just at the bottom, you're going to give your chicken some feet. And all of you should have something that looks like this. Hey, everybody got an agile chicken? I feel like one of those like showgirls. Lift up your agile chickens. We want to see them. Yeah. Look at that. You all got a chicken. So you can draw. You can draw. That is the hardest thing you're going to do today. I promise it's going to be the most intense thing. So we do know that it's quite a big room. If you can't see at any point, please feel free to kind of gravitate towards where we are. Oh, hello. Is that better? Okay. So if you can't see at any point, please feel free to just gravitate or stand up or move around. Okay. Cool. So we're going to train from the back of the room today because we like to do things differently. And we also needed the wall space. So sorry. Can everyone see this? Okay. We actually made this while we were here in India because the first thing we saw when we landed was all of these signs. Who knows what that means. We don't have that in South Africa. That's not a sign we have. Okay. And it became very clear very quickly that that's like a no hooting like no honking sign. We've still we're still trying to find the place where people obey that. We haven't found it advisory. Okay. It's a suggestion. Yeah. Okay. So basically everywhere you go in the world, we use a lot of visuals. Okay. And visuals actually transcend language and culture. So if you have a look next time you travel at just the signs and how easy it is to follow these signs without any language or words. So this is a nice example. This one was really important for me. I got that wrong on my first day in the hotel. And because the signs here aren't super clear, which is why we decided to draw it there. It's really important to make sure that this looks like a lady. Anyway. Okay. And then this one at the bottom with a wine glass and the arrows pointing up. Who knows what that means. Fragile. Exactly. Fragile this way up. It may not mean kind of this box is full of wine. Usually in my case it does. But again, I mean, what a clear indication that everyone understands universally. And these ones are pretty similar. So we've got the car that's kind of skidding on the road implying that it's wet. And then we've got this one where a person's kind of skidding along the slippery floor as well. We always laugh because this always looks like they're snakes chasing someone. It's really quite an interesting visual. Okay. But other than the snakes, it's pretty much universal, this visual language. So that's our whole point is that you can use visuals to communicate, especially in like cross-cultural, cross-language situations and teams. But why visual thinking? Often I think people think that we just like to draw, but there's a very specific purpose and kind of psychology behind it. So visual thinking helps you see the bigger picture. Often when we're thinking about things in our own heads, it's quite overwhelming. And with teams it's quite difficult to communicate. So if you're able to map it out visually, you can actually put it into perspective and see a bigger picture for a problem or solution. Another thing that visual thinking does is it helps us engagement in a team. If you're actually actively involved in picking up a pen and participating, you're that much more engaged in what's actually happening in the session. And it also helps with different levels of thinking. So it helps you think strategically, it helps you think tactically and it helps you think creatively. How much time do you think you can save in every meeting if you just include some visuals? Some of you can see the poster. For those of you at the back, how much time do you think it is? Does it help if I do this for you guys? Can you see it? You can save 24% of your meeting time that's wasted just in conversation just by including some visuals. Why do you think that is? I'm hearing lots of stuff. It's pretty much that we can have a common picture. Otherwise, do you guys still have records? You know, record players? Yeah? Otherwise, you have like a record. Like the conversation just goes on repeat because no one's actually recorded what was said. Or you're saying the same thing. Yeah. And then also interestingly, so there are four modes of learning. So certain people learn better through different styles. So you've got your read-write, which is very much like traditional schooling system. You've got visual, you've got auditory and you've got kinesthetic, which is movement. 65% of people are visual learners. And actually, I was doing a lot of reading app. It's actually increasing with the younger generations because there's so much more visual. If you think of like social media and videos and all of that. So it's really important to be able to incorporate this with your teams because chances are they're a good portion of your team who are visual learners. How are you guys taught at school? Were you more read and write? Yeah? Your teachers forced you to write stuff down and read things to learn. And we've started seeing that education is starting to change to incorporate the other modes of learning as well. But particularly with my sort of generation and even to an extent Talia's generation, we still see that people were taught to read and write and to ignore the other modes of learning. And the final thing, the final reason why we want to include visual thinking into our work when we work with teams is because we want to have a shared record. So when we walk out of our team sessions, we're pulling flip charts off the wall and we're taking them with us. So if we want to have another conversation a bit later, we just pull out those flip charts and we just keep building on it. You can't do that with PowerPoint. Okay. So it's an agile conference. So we had to include our own manifesto because it's compulsory at an agile conference. So we've come up with our own visual thinking manifesto, which is here. So our first, our first statement to value and visual thinking is thinking in pictures over explaining in words. So words are still important, but they're not enough. We need to start bringing in a way to communicate in pictures. Now in South Africa, we have 11 official languages. So when we're sitting in a room and we have 11 different official languages, words are definitely not going to be enough. We have to figure out how do we include visual elements to you. Cool. And then our second value is shared understanding over individual interpretation. So again, it's about teamwork, being able to actually communicate something effectively to a group of people and not just keep it in your head. And visuals can help do that really quickly and really easily. Our third statement is see possibilities over analyzing problems. Are you ever in sessions where all you're hearing is problems? That's all that people see. We never kind of get to that solution space. And starting to incorporate visuals into your conversation can help others start seeing the possibilities behind the problems. Problems also sometimes seem a lot bigger, you know, if they're just in your head. Okay. And then the last one is embrace humanness over seeking precision. So the first batch of posters Angie and I did, we actually had a spelling mistake in this. We didn't know how to spell humanness. We had one in and someone picked it up and we were like, yeah, that was intentional. We just we're trying to prove a point that it doesn't have to be perfect. We fixed it now. Okay, so this is about it's not about perfection. It's not about art. It's actually about being open and being courageous and authentic and trying. So if you draw something and it's imperfect, it actually becomes like a really humorous memory for you and your team. And which is better people remember that more than a really perfect symmetrical icon on PowerPoint. Okay, so we want to actually embrace that human element. People also connect better generally with hand drawn images. Because of that because it's interesting. It's not like just something that they've seen all the time. And if it's imperfect, they're actually more likely to pick up a pen and go and contribute than if it was perfect. So if it doesn't look, I don't know like an artwork, they'll actually come and contribute more. Okay, and you cannot pick up a pen and go and correct a PowerPoint presentation. I'm pretty sure if anybody wrote on these whiteboard things that all the presentations have been projected onto, there'd be a lot of trouble. So just by having it hand drawn, you're actually going to encourage more collaboration with people. So Talia's just walked to our agenda for those of you that haven't seen it yet. This is just a very simple way to keep things visual. It's just to help you know where we are in the workshop. So we're about to dive into a little bit more of a practical explanation. So this has been quite theoretical. You're going to follow along in your books with us. So we're going to introduce the first element of visual thinking, which might be surprising for you. Because it's actually letters. It's how do you write words? Now if you how many of you have got amazing handwriting? How many of you like awesome handwriting? No, there's a few people putting up their hands. The rest of you. How's your handwriting? A little bit dodgy. So, so yeah. And it's a problem, right? Because if you're going to be standing up in front of a team and you're going to be recording stuff on a flip chart for them, you've got to have a really, really neat handwriting. But don't worry, we're going to help you get a better, more legible handwriting. So the way to do it is to start off with a grid like this. So you can see that there's five lines on here. And you're going to use these middle three lines for the bulk of your lettering. So I'm going to try to do this with a mic in my hand at the same time. Does anyone have a spare book? Okay, I'm going to do a letter A here. Okay, did you see what I just did there? I used the three letters in the middle for my letter. If I'm doing something with the tail at the top, so something like a B, I'm going to use the three in the middle and use that top part there for the top. Let's do a C. And now the trick with writing is you've always got to leave enough space between your words. If you write too closely together, no one's going to see what you've written from a distance. So a good idea is between your letters is to leave a space the size of a letter M. Okay, and then you can keep writing. See, there's a letter with a tail. Oops, we've got a very uneven wall here, Talia. Okay, practice that one very quickly. Practice a nice, neat font in your book using the space provided. Write your name. Do you want to maybe hold it for that side? Do you guys have spare books? Can you guys see on that side? Yeah? Cut it. That small is nice because it's got a tail and it's got a top as well. So I don't know if you also saw what I did with my A. I gave it a little cap on the top. That's just so that it doesn't look like a U or like a small B or something like that. It just makes it very clearly distinct from other letters. Just very quickly. Does anyone have any spare books? There were some people. If you don't have a book, just follow along on some blank paper. Yeah. Oh, here's one. Oh, here we go. Okay. Has everybody got their name? Everybody written their name. Some of you have got really long names. Okay. So once you've got a really, really clear legible font that you can write super quick because the idea with this is you need to be able to write fast and neat. So you've actually got to practice this. It's not good that you can write fast. You've got to read. It's got to be in a way that other people can actually read what you said. Once you've got a really nice, clear font, then you can start doing something like super fancy. What does this say? Those of you at the front that can read it says fancy. Okay. Fancy font. Don't write in fancy font when you are taking notes for other people. Okay. They're not going to be able to read it. You know when you can use fancy font for the headings. Okay. So if you are preparing for a workshop or something beforehand for your team, you can play around with some fun elements and you'll see we do it quite a lot with our posters just to give you some ideas. Okay. Everybody got maybe do a quick fancy font in the bottom one. Okay. Now we're going to move on. You've mastered lettering. Now you're going to move on to connectors. This is something I promise you every single one of you can do. So we like connectors and separators. So connectors are really lines, lines and arrows. So they're good to connect two ideas to each other. So it's as simple as just drawing a line from one idea to the other idea. How do you usually use this line like a straight line? Just to show a relationship, right? What about if I do this? What does that mean? So it's now a dotted line, sort of connected, maybe like a dotted line reporting. So it's not a direct connection. It's like a distant cousin kind of connection. What about if it's like this? So it's a super, super thick line. Strong connection, right? Just using a line like you can come up with three different meanings. Now another way that we can use connectors or lines is to highlight an idea just by underlining it. Like you all do that already when something's important, you underline it. But you can also use lines to make something glow off the page just by highlighting like that. Another way to use lines is to actually keep it, to keep ideas separate from each other. And we do that by drawing a line around something to box the idea in. And I mentioned that we don't just use lines, we also use arrows, because what our arrow is really important for, to draw attention to something on a page. So instantly when you see an arrow, where are you looking? So wherever the arrowhead is pointing. Okay, super simple. You guys do these already, right? So now we're going to move on to something that maybe is a little bit more hectic. How do you like drawing people? Easy. It is easy. It's super easy to draw people. Like all you need to do is just draw a strict stickman, right? So what's your favorite way to draw people? Stickman, that's mine, mine as well. Or as Talia says, stick ladies as well. Yeah, stick men and ladies. It's important. Okay, you're just normal, you're circle with your little arms and legs. Super, super simple. The one that I quite like is if you're in a rush and you need to draw people really quickly. So this is good if you're working in user experience and you need to represent that there's people that you're engaging with. And if it's a fast drawing, you can draw a little star man. And he looks, okay, he looks a little bit strange because this wall's weird to draw on. So he's got a really fat leg and a thin leg. But you can see he's a person, right? The other one I love is this one and you'll see it on all the posters that I've drawn. Can you see that? He's like a little chess piece. He's got like the little head and like a little half circle body. And the reason I like this one is because you can actually add arms and legs. And he can actually, he's kind of standing there kind of saying what now. A good way to represent a crowd. So again if you're having to draw something really quickly, so if I was going to draw you, this is one way. I might do it. So just a whole bunch of these little chess piece men next to each other and then you draw the heads afterwards. And then all this one. This one's pretty cool. Well, Talia, you're going to battle on this wall. Our pictures are going to be very imperfect. Very imperfect. We're living our one manifesto value. Okay, so we just got another little crowd there. My other favorite in addition to this little chess piece guy is just drawing little little box men. So they're great when you're trying to give movement or an angle that someone's facing. So this guy over here, you draw his head first in the neck and you position his body in the direction that he's going. So what do you think the sky is doing? He's running, right? Okay, that is a speed cloud. Just making it clear and I'll put like little sweat drops coming off of him. Okay, so just a couple of a few simple shapes can get you some movement with your people. Okay, so Talia, you're going to draw a person. Okay, oh yeah. Talia's going to do a little motion that you're going to copy. So you want to maybe watch things around you and find like movements or expressions that you can draw. So I think in there we said draw someone jumping. I can't really jump that well but maybe hold it. So Talia, just hold the pose so that they can quickly just stay in mid-air. That would be better. So practice drawing someone jumping. It's in the bottom right hand corner I think of your booklet. So just quickly practice using any of the characters we've just been through but that little square guy is really easy for movement. Everybody got someone jumping. Hey, was it easy? Now that yeah, easier than if you hadn't tried. Hey, there you go. We went to MySaw on Saturday. We did a tour. And Talia did a jump just like that. So you know those embarrassing photographs that you take like in front of, you know, when you're a tourist and I tried to do a jump. I was probably this far off the ground. It was really embarrassing but nice photo. Okay, so has everyone drawn a person? Okay, now that we know how to draw people, what's the next thing? Actually, you guys can look in your book so it's not a surprise. Okay, so we're gonna, we're gonna move on to faces. Now why is it important to draw faces? I mean we in technology, like why personas? Emotion. Okay, awesome because actually at the end of the day, whatever we develop is for people. And it's really important to capture that emotion. How is the person feeling? Are they happy? Are they sad? Okay, so we want to take the fear out of drawing faces. They're really easy ways of doing it. So for example, for the eyes, you can just do like a circle. You can almost do like a w for a nose. So those of you that can't see, it's really hard for us to lift up and show, just move around if you want to. Okay, now that this is my favorite way to draw eyes, it's pretty much just like a colored in circle and then I put like a semi circle on top which looks like the eyelid and a nose you could even do just as a straight line. That's super quick. If you want to get a bit more fancy and now I'm on the crack, so let's see. You can do like a semi circle with another colored in circle in the corner if he's looking that way which gives you more of like a cartoon kind of eye and then a V for the nose. So at the moment, how are these people feeling? You can't tell, right? Neutral. Okay, good point. So actually most of our emotion comes from our eyebrows and from our mouths. So if we did this to this girl, how is she feeling now? Sad, confused. Can you see on the side? Should we lift it up quick? Angry. Okay, so traditionally the eyebrows pointing down in the, yeah, this guy, shame, he's got a bit of a uni brow. Happy but then his eyebrows are just straight, it's like naughty, I don't know. Oh, he looks very goofy. Well, it's because he's got one eyebrow. I know. Okay, so that's a really quick and easy way to show emotion without actually needing any autistic ability and this actually comes from a technique that we use by Dave Gray and it's called a face grid. So essentially all we're doing is using three lines for the eyebrows and the mouth and we able to create nine expressions. So your lines at the top here are your eyebrows and your lines down the side are your mouths. I think it is in your book or you can follow in a piece of paper. Yeah, draw it in your book as you go, follow along with Talia. So basically all I'm doing is I'm saying eyebrows from the top so all of these will actually be like that and then mouth, shame, he's drooling, okay? Okay, so all the eyebrows and then all the mouths. So basically once you've done this you've got nine really unique expressions that you can use, that you can reference. And then if you're feeling really creative you can start mixing it up. Yeah, with the different eyes and the nose so you can really build up this face grid to pretty much create any emotion. And there are some ideas in the booklet as well. Okay, great. So you're comfortable with faces. Awesome. So now that we've mastered people we're going to pretty much tackle everything else in the world, which is like all your objects or anything else you want to draw. And there's also a trick with this. So the trick is to break everything down into its most basic shape. Actually professional artists this is also how they start. They'll start with like the basic and then add a whole bunch of awesome stuff on top. But the aim with this is you want to be able to draw things with as few lines and as simply as possible. Because remember it's not about artwork, it's about just getting a concept across an idea of an object or something. So for example and this blew my mind. So your basic shapes are your squares and rectangles, circles, triangles, and then lines. So your squiggles. So I always had issues drawing a puzzle piece. Because I'd kind of go like around the edge and try. And you'd be surprised how often you draw puzzle pieces with visual thinking. It's like because it means so much or it could mean so much. Could mean like teams working together, it could mean anything. And actually when you break a puzzle piece down it's pretty much just a square with four circles. So a square and then kind of in the middle of each side you're going to draw you're going to visualize a circle. And then all you do, all you do is just trace around it. So you're going to trace around the square and then for some of them you might go in and for some of them you might go out. That's it. Easy. Okay, another one which I use often. So they're actually like a few things that Angie and I use all the time. Is a light bulb. So pretty much a light bulb is a circle and like a rectangle. And then obviously you can just make it look prettier with two lines, a squiggle, and then like Angie mentioned earlier you can use lines to make it glow, to accentuate it. If you want to get fancier you almost just separate the rectangle in the circle and just follow that curve. So there's a bottom. You're going to follow the curve around which gives you that nice kind of hourglass or curvaceous shape. And then you can add a little semicircle at the bottom. And this is the kind of stuff that you can use for so many things. Strategy, ideas, innovation. So it's almost like learning in another language. And then also for example triangle. You can very easily draw something like a fish using two triangles and some circles. And super quick and easy. I think your flipcharts are slightly different from ours. But with one, two, three, four, five lines you've got a flipchart. Okay, so again it's about kind of looking at something and really breaking it down into the bare minimum lines and the bare minimum shapes. So we're going to give you an opportunity to practice with the basic shapes because this is probably the hardest one to do. So you'll see in the middle of your tables there's two tables that do not have a colorful envelope. Those two tables just come and find another table to work with. But have a look at those big colorful envelopes. This one over here. Big folder. Can hold it up for me. Okay, inside of it there's a whole bunch of shapes. And we've also got pipe cleaners for those lines. Empty it all out into the middle of your table. And we're going to give you five minutes as a table to build as many objects as you can with the shapes that are in there. The team who makes the most wins. So be creative. Really think about what the shapes are in different objects. Two minutes to finish up all the shapes on your table. Take a quick look at what the tables around you did. We'll give you a minute to do you like a walking tour of the room. Okay, so take a quick look at the tables around you and see some of the objects that they came up with. So we'll give you like another 30 seconds to do that. Okay, you can start heading back to your table. Okay, how did you guys find that? Easy. Awesome. That's good. How easy was it to create your objects? Not easy. Not hard, right? When you break things down into their basic shapes it is really easy to start drawing things. Yeah. What have we done in the past? We've always tried to make it look like it's real. Okay. Some people say it's not easy and yeah it takes a bit of practice. So what you can do is you can actually look around your home or your office and identify objects and find ways of drawing them quickly or you know what shapes they made up of. Okay, grab a seat back at your table. We're going to keep going through the rest of the elements. We'll just give you guys an opportunity to sit down. So what I do with my daughter, she really loves to draw and we've actually got a journal and we just draw like a big grid on a page and then we'll go into a room in the house and we'll pick out objects and say okay let's draw that and then all we'll use is basic shapes. The trick with the basic shapes is to use as few lines as possible. So you want to get to a point where you can draw these things really really quickly. So it does take a bit of practice but it helps when you just break it down into its simplest form. Okay, so we're going to move on. So now that we've got our basic shapes and our objects and we happy with that we're going to move on to the next section. Just a quick note, you can do a lot with the elements we've covered so far. You can do a lot with connectors and lines and with stick people and like really basic things. This section containers you can get quite creative with or you can keep it simple. So I mean this yeah it's more kind of about using it to illustrate meaning. So for example the trick with containers is to always do your text first. So you'll write whatever you want to write and then you'll contain it. So like Angie did maybe just with a block. Okay because the risk is if you do your container first let's do maybe like a little speech bubble. Awesome it's so pretty. Now I want to write the word conversation and you're like standing up there and everyone's watching you and you're really confident and you're like converse say and then you're like now I'm out of space and then you try and like fit the rest of it into that last little piece. Okay so it's just like a really practical way is to always do your text first and then contain it afterwards because then you can always just make it fit. What I like to do which is a really easy kind of thing is like the conversation maybe in a speech bubble. Sometimes if it's something that we're talking about that's maybe like a thought or a feeling of a customer for example. I'll use a thought bubble container to contain that that text that thought or that feeling. So already you almost start to develop like a language with your teams because you know everything in a thought bubble means it's suit and information it's a feeling or whatever thought. My favorite is also like banners and Ange and I use use them quite often for our posters so they're really nice just for headings and they're actually quite easy to do so my favorite one is like a very curvy one so it's almost like an S and then a backwards S and then you'll bring it down into like a rectangle and then you'll join at the back kind of where it goes behind you'll create like another rectangle just make sure that it's always the same width as the front otherwise it looks like it doesn't belong. You can also do like a what do you call it like a triangular edge and then all you do is connect it where the S was you just draw a line down and that gives the illusion of it being 3D. Another really basic one would be kind of square you can do a square box a square box behind and then you just do a line to join. So that's a really like simple way of making something look quite cool. What do you think the difference is between you're really like curvy shapes versus your more rectangular pointy edges like wavy okay and in terms of like the meaning behind it like the psychology behind it. Softer, more organic. Yeah awesome so and you see how intuitive it is for us to say if something's in a more like curvy container it's softer it's less structured whereas the very strong edges are very rigid it's maybe a rule not a suggestion who was saying earlier signs or suggestions and again your team will start to understand that and you can actually build it in as like a language that you use. I'm going to break my own rule so the only time that I'll do the container first is if you really maybe having fun or you don't have a lot of text. So here's a coffee cup again just like a half circle in two lines and then you could put text in there to fit the shape you know so you can do like really fun stuff quite simply with containers. There's some ideas in the book as well like frames and and there's lots on google as well if you want to practice and explore. Okay so we've now done all those basic shapes and now we're at the point where we can start adding things like color and shading but the tip with this is always start with these elements first so color and shading is really great to add in but not if you don't have time so rather focus on these things and start adding in things like containers colors shading after otherwise you land the risk of actually losing as you go because you're trying to make it look too beautiful. Remember it's all about visual thinking getting the team into the same page. And sometimes less is more. Less is always more with visual thinking. So we've just got a plain old simple color wheel we don't have a poster for it and the trick with color is to understand the local references to color so there could be different colors and we wouldn't know necessarily from a cultural side what different colors imply so make sure you are aware of color and the use of color. I know in a lot of our sessions in South Africa we would limit the color black that we use so we would use black font but we wouldn't necessarily use a lot of black shading and it's yeah I mean we're also a very colorful nation so that's not going to be the kind of color we'd bring in a lot of. Also one thing sorry Andrew just on that so how many of you use rag or have used rag statuses in the past? Red amber green. So just be careful of the psychology behind that I've often like picked up a red marker just because it was there and written stuff and people have walked in and they're like what's wrong everything's red you know because it's so entrenched so there's a lot of like psychology behind color as well. Okay and then also just be aware of what colors go really well together so you want to know which ones are complimentary our posters have no color scheme okay so Talia and I went for maximum color but when we're facilitating or when we are doing a graphic facilitation session we don't incorporate this much color we'll often actually go with the company's corporate color schemes especially if there's a lot of connection in the company with the corporate branding then we'll just make sure that we've got the markers in that color and those are the only ones that we'll use. Otherwise it can be like a bit visually overwhelming it's different for this kind of workshop but if you're if you're doing graphic recording keep it a little bit simpler okay so the next thing that we want to move on to is shading so this is what we're going to do after we've actually done our basic shapes and there's a couple of different ways that you can incorporate some shading into your into your graphic facilitation or into your visual thinking so the easiest one is to use lines we've got lines on our shirt just to indicate that there's depth in there so that's cross-hatching so you can either use crossed lines I just like to use a simple one line but can you see I've got a light a disc light in the top right hand corner of this poster so it implies that there's a light source coming from the top right hand corner so what's going to happen here is the lines are going to be quite close together in the bottom left hand corner and as you start getting closer to the light source they're going to get further and further away so it looks like it's darker here and lighter there the trick with shading is never to confuse where the light source is coming from so if you're shading and it's darker in the bottom left hand corner keep the shading in the bottom left hand corner because visually we know it looks wrong so just always in my mind the sun's always on the top right hand corner so that's how I always shade stippling this one is really amazing if you have the time to sit and do a lot of dots it's actually a really incredible effect so this one's pretty cool if you're doing something like sketch noting and you've got time to add color afterwards you'll do the same thing lots and lots of dots in the bottom left hand corner and then it'll fade up to the top right the one that you've seen us use a lot on our posters can you see the color that we've incorporated the crayon can you see the crayon so I'm just trying to find mine so we use these crayons which is basically it's just like a block of crayon and then what you do is you just shade and I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it on the wall but I'm going to try so you start really really dark in the bottom left hand corner but it's a really fast way of injecting some color into your posters okay rather otherwise you're going to go through so much ink with your markers so these things are really great to buy for shading okay so are you ready to start drawing are we going to do it we're going to draw again are you ready we're going to play something called visual jam so find that page in your book it is a two by three grid and it's going to have can I use yours can I lift it up that's what it looks like okay grab yourself a pen and how visual jam works is I'm going to call out some words I've got a whole bunch of words that I know teams use all the time and I'm going to give you 30 seconds to draw that word okay using particularly what you've just learned under basic shapes and that's one sorry Angie this one you don't have to do in your book you can use any paper that's on the table you basically just going to divide it into six okay so here's my words Talia is actually going to draw it at the same time like I said I'm going to give you 30 seconds around there per word we're going to see how you guys do are you ready use basic shapes use connectors you can even incorporate words if you want to use any of the elements that we've just been through to help you out with this drawing are you ready Talia are you ready I hope so I don't know what the words are let me pick one okay let's go with management management you're about halfway through okay that's 30 seconds for management this is how quick we've got to be next word let's do passion passion passionate so you can draw passion or passionate I'm okay with either of those to you as in passionate about visual thinking yeah please keep it maybe PG PG almost up next word strategy strategy okay your time's up next word metrics or measurements metrics or measurements metric or measurement you got about five seconds left next word is feedback feedback when you give feedback to someone else okay last word I'm going to make it a good one transformation are you always hear this word in agile you got to love it you got to have a picture for it it's the word you're going to hear in every meeting transformation okay time is up are you ready because what you're going to do is you're going to hold up your pictures and you're going to show everyone what you do because you got to get comfortable with your drawings in public and hold them up show them out come on don't be shy just do it got to get the courage look at that look at those awesome images don't get intimidated by Talia's I'm sure that they're beautiful but Talia's been doing this for years well done well done how does that feel how does it feel feel good hey maybe a little bit more practice than some of them I'm seeing amazing drawings they're they look incredible okay so do you want to have an opportunity to build it up a little bit more and practice a little bit more of what we did today because now we've broken I don't know the nervousness everybody want to take a look at Talia's quick because I want to give you a heads up with Talia okay Talia has done this for two years two years okay she has got that vocabulary in her head so when she hears words she knows exactly what she wants to draw but you're welcome to come up at any point and come take a photo of Talia's if you want some inspiration for your stuff but the trick with this is to draw what resonates with you what does the word sound like to you not what does someone else draw it like what does it sound like to you and what can you draw and a good way to do these these these very quick images is to look at icons on google so if you're not sure how to draw something look at an icon it's usually the simplest representation of it and share and look at other people's work as well so already now walking around I've got other ideas so next time I've got different things I could have used that might have actually been better you know so if you keep sharing you'll keep learning okay so we're going to move into the big practical section oh we haven't been very good with our agenda let's just do that quick so we're here we're now in the the big practical what you're going to do at your tables is you can do a really really big table poster if you want to the the problem with two larger group is that half of you won't have a pen in your hand and you're just going to watch your buddies drawing that's not what we want we want everybody to have a pen in their hand and to play around with coming up with a poster so you can split your table a good size is usually about three to four people per group so we'll leave you guys to self-organize around that there should be some flip-top paper on the tables there's some markers you can mix and match with other tables because you're not going to have all the colors you're looking for and a good way to start with this is to start with a small piece of paper first okay so give me a small piece so this is like a small scale of a flip chart so what you do is you fold please help me talk with my okay so you're going to fold it in half and you're going to fold it in half again and you're going to fold it in half again and what you land up with is a miniature scale of a flip chart so you can quickly sketch out and then you can make it bigger okay this is a good way to kind of plot out if you want to do posters like what we've done this is how we start so you plan on a small scale and then all you have to do is scale it up using this grid so you know in the top left right grid that's what should be in it etc etc just so that you don't run out of space or anything on your big poster so we're going to give you most of the time that's left for this workshop we'll give you an idea of how we're tracking on time but form your groups come up with some concepts and if you're stuck for what to draw we've got a whole bunch of ideas here so we've got the four statements of the agile manifesto we've got the 12 principles and we've got the other the dysfunctions of a team by Patrick Lentioni so if you want to come and grab one and draw that you can draw anything though these are just if you may be stuck at your table for some inspiration so come grab us if you want one of them we can show you what we've got otherwise start forming your groups and we will let you know how time is moving also feel free so Angie and I put a lot of effort into our posters so they can act as inspiration feel free to come and have a closer look get some ideas and just move around freely okay yeah it's you've got about seven or eight minutes what but if we keep going we're going to run over our time slot so finish off what you're doing you've got about 20 seconds also if you have your shapes on the table please could you do us a favor and just pack them up back in the folders so whatever you got to for now is fine hopefully I've got the juices flowing and you'll continue practicing so we are great very cool that's awesome very cool so okay what we're going to do is we're actually going to find somewhere to stick these up on the walls outside so you can see what everybody did but we just want to wrap up the session because we're about to run out of time and Talia and I will be available just now but maybe just quickly grab a seat and let's just finish off the last few few things to bear in mind so we like to use the scrum values when we think about visual thinking so the first one is respect and this one's super important because you are going to be incredibly critical about your drawings okay when you first start they're all going to look horrible in your eyes we know because we had to start somewhere too so the trick is to respect yourself when you first start with visual thinking okay don't be don't be too hard on what you've drawn and also when somebody else has the courage to pick up a pen and draw in front of you respect the fact that they're trying because this is so hard to get right in front of people so if you're a bit worried with the first round that you do if you come closer to our posters you'll see that we did pencil marks in there because even after running this workshop a few times Talia and I still sometimes forget what we were going to draw so yeah it's nervous energy right like even we do it so if you want to draw something in pencil first and then you just trace over it in pen people are going to think you're a rock star because they're going to be like oh my word then you just had to draw this okay so the first one is respect just respect yourself respect others when you when you first start trying and then the next one's openness so it's really important to Angie and I we try to bring in this new way of thinking using visuals so be open with it if you would like to our contact details are in the booklet or you can reach out to us tweet us pictures if you do sketches if you do sketch notes or use it in your teams you welcome to tweet us you welcome to reach out to us so it's about being open and it's about also not taking yourself too seriously so you know if you draw something that you really don't like what Angie and I do is we just put a heart on it and we're like okay let's love it let's move on or label it if you try to draw a frog and it looks like a blob just right under their frog laugh as a team and move on the other one is courage it does take a lot of courage to do this you build it up over time so within your team create the space where all of you can practice doing this a bit that should be a safe space okay and then commitment so it does take time and practice so if it is something you're interested in just commit to practicing and building up your visual vocabulary and then the final one is focus now it's not focus on your drawings okay what do you think it's focusing on whatever you're hearing okay there's going to be a conversation and what you're wanting to do is you're wanting to capture that conversation so don't get too absorbed in drawing your picture and you lose the conversation that's happening around you because you're trying to make your picture perfect so focus on the conversation build up that vocabulary you start drawing stuff certain things really really quickly so then it's easy to capture the conversation but don't lose sight of the conversation that's happening okay so one last thing we will be sharing all the photographs of the posters as our slide deck we'll put it up on the conference site and then also Angie and I are relatively active on Twitter so Doyle underscore Angie and I'm actually underskitching Scrum Master so we'll share links in that as well but we just hope that we've inspired you all that we've reignited your inner child and that is something that you now feel confident and courageous to take back to your teams I don't know if we've got any time for questions but Talia and I will be around after the session and we'll hang around outside a little bit as well and a little bit later on so come find us if you've got any questions that you want to go through but thank you very much for coming to our workshop