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Use Agile Scenarios to help your team emerge from the COVID crisis stronger
than ever.
Traditional scenario planning is the go-to “sense making” approach in times of crisis, but it’s too cumbersome for lean teams (startups / not-for-profits etc.). Agile Scenarios are a fast, practical and remarkably effective alternative. RECAST is a free resource with all of the information you need to use agile scenarios to help reduce uncertainty, empower your team and align key stakeholders as you adjust strategy & execution to thrive in ‘next-normal’.
Get instant access to the Agile Scenario Briefing + How-To & Support Materials.
You’ll learn:
3 stages of a Crisis Overview ( learn where we are & what’s coming next)
All about Agile Scenarios (what they are? why use them?)
How-To run Agile Scenarios with your team (step-by-step instructions)
What are Agile Scenarios and why should you use them during a crisis?
The future is uncertain. You know that some things will change forever, but that other things won’t. You know that adjusting strategy & execution is critical, but how do you figure where & when? Agile Scenarios are a fast and remarkably effective tool for making sense of possible futures so you can take bold action today.
Watch to learn more.
BACKGROUND
What is RECAST?
RECAST is an open-source project created and maintained by a group of entrepreneurs and independent consultants. We focused on Scenarios because they one of the most important sense-making tool in times of crisis and uncertainty, but most startups and not-for-profits lack the training and resources to use them.
THE PROBLEM… Traditional scenario planning is the go-to approach in a crisis, but it’s far too complex and resource heavy for lean teams… particularly in the middle of a crisis.
THE SOLUTION… RECAST introduces a simpler, more agile adaptation that leverages the essential parts of classic scenario planning and turns them into a simple exercise that can be completed in as little as one hour (although 90 to 120 min. is the norm). Agile Scenarios provide a fast and effective tool for thinking through the shifting landscape and adjusting execution to emerge from stronger than ever.
Why Scenarios?
Covid is a transformative disruption (ie: some things will be changed forever and that will force people to change what they believe and how they behave). Making sense of how this is all going to unfold is an essential step to getting your trajectory right and to building the confidence of your team and investors, but this is tectonic change and it’s impossible to know.
Fortunes are made (and lost) during the reset, but the winners don’t ‘know’ how it’s going to turn out. Instead, they continually update their thinking on the full range of plausible futures, and they rapidly adjust their execution as events unfold. The way you thrive in crisis is to incrementally adjust your trajectory so that it ends up optimized for the next normal. In reality, this happens one tweak at a time.
Agile scenarios is how you get there.
Who’s it for?
RECAST is for leaders of agile teams (startup or enterprise, NGO or government, for profit or for purpose)… if you;re leading your team through this crisis, you can benefit from the RECAST approach.
Entrepreneurs, CEO’s, Managing directors, Strategy practitioners, Innovation departments or organizations and Accelerators have all seen benefits from implementing the Recast process.
Where can I learn how to implement the process for my team?
You can instantly access the entire set of resources (current and future) by signing up. It’s free. There are no hidden calls to action, because RECAST is a pro bono effort by a community of people who have a simple goal of helping emerging leaders (startups, not-for-profits etc.) come out of this crisis stronger than ever.
If you’d like help running an Agile Scenario process for your organization, contact us.
Request the Agile Scenario Briefing and How-To Videos.
HOW TO
Agile Scenario Resources
Agile Scenario Briefing
In this video we cover:
Crisis Overview (where are we & what’s coming next)
Agile Scenarios (what they are? why use them?)
How you can use Agile Scenarios
Crisis Leadership (thriving in chaos)
Step-by-Step ‘How-To’
In this video, we provide step-by-step guidance on how to set-up and run Agile Scenario workshops with your team.
It's a companion to the RECAST Briefing which explains what Agile Scenarios are and why they are such a powerful tool for leading through the coming post-crisis strategy reset.
Download the Agile Scenario Canvas
Use this template to guide your agile scenario planning workshop.
View Example Outputs
In the spirit of helping, some Agile Scenario users have generously volunteered to share the output from their session in an effort to help others (thank you).
Request a session for your team or portfolio.
We routinely run Agile Scenario sessions for our clients, and we’d be happy to help you and your team. That said, our ultimate goal with RECAST is to provide the resources and support that folks need to do this without outside help, so even you do choose to involve us, we’ll try to help you build the competencies needed to run these without us.
About
Traditional scenario planning is the go-to “sense making” approach in a crisis, but it’s far too complex and resource heavy for agile firms, particularly in the middle of a crisis.
RECAST is an open-source, agile approach to scenarios. It’s a fast, practical and remarkably effective way to reduce uncertainty, empower your team and align key stakeholders as you lead your team through the inevitable post-crisis reset and into the next normal.
The following collaborators are helping to develop, refine and popularize Agile Scenarios.
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Rampworth
Rampworth is an agile strategy firm. We help transformative leaders (from startups to enterprise) harness the forces of disruption to outmaneuver the competition. Our job is to help you decide where to place a bet (and why), help craft the strategy and narrative that attracts the resources that you need to execute (talent/capital/partners etc.) and help optimize strategy & execution in response to shifting forces and market landscape.
E2D
We have been preparing for the coming world of decentralization for the past several years, and though we feel we are still in the very early stages, each and every day we see more progress towards mainstream adoption. The opportunities are revealing themselves and as we work through each of them we learn more, discover more and get clarity on just which opportunities we should be pursuing.
Expert Dojo
Expert DOJO improves the success rate of early-stage entrepreneurs with investment, foundation, influence, community, branding, marketing, communication, mindset. Based in Santa Monica, Expert DOJO is the fastest growing start-up community in Southern California. Entrepreneurs love Expert DOJO and the power of our startup community. All entrepreneurs in our programs have agreed to support the whole community as we get stronger together.
Can You Help us Help Entrepreneurs?
We are on a mission to bring RECAST to as many entrepreneurs as possible… can you help?
That might be as simple as sharing this with a colleague, or introducing us to your local accelerator, or perhaps you’d like to run some scenario sessions or deliver RECAST training or content in your industry?
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RECAST is an open version of the Agile Scenario process developed by At Rampworth. RECAST has been made possible by the generous support of countless friends, colleagues and participants who’ve provided feedback and shaped the agile scenario process. To all those who’ve helped make this possible, thank you.
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