Manage Change with Story Mapping and BAPO
Use Story Mapping and BAPO to create a visualisation of you change plan. Can also be used to continuously re-plan and track your change effort. It's a great tool to co-create with your change team and stakeholders.
Time
60-120 minutes
Number of people
5-15 people, the change team and stakeholders and/or managers
Material
Sticky notes, whiteboard or similar digital tool
PREPARE
A canvas or whiteboard with the framework
Book a room and invite your team and other stakeholders
WORKSHOP
Start with an empty board
Focus on things needed to happen in the change you are embarking. It can be research, experiments och activities
All: Use a sticky note to write down activities to be done within each column; Business, Architecture, Process, Organisation
Place the stickies in the column they belong to
Everyone describes what they have written
Group if necessary
Create Slices
Create slices that hang together through the BAPO steps
Fill in the gaps
Identify the holes in your map and try to add what is missing
The goal is to create slices that hang together and make sense in a "theme" or "phase"
Add the name of the "phase" to the left
If a slice is too thick, split it in smaller slices, but keep meaningful items in all BAPO column for each slice
TIPS
This is a starting point, focus on the uppser slices
Use the board to track what is done by adding a checkmark to the item
Use the board to communicate the plan and to invite people to join
Every activity should be a single sticky note
Keep your activities short and precise
Discuss and agree as a team