http://www.thechickentest.com/2007/04/backcasting-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-predicting-and-help-my-clients-session-audio/ Musings from an irregular web and software experience designer and his chicken. Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thechickentest.com/2007/04/backcasting-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-predicting-and-help-my-clients-session-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-12735 Strategy — fourth of five IA Summit 2007 themes (Leapfroglog) Thu, 03 May 2007 08:40:02 +0000 http://www.thechickentest.com/2007/04/backcasting-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-predicting-and-help-my-clients-session-audio/#comment-12735 [...] Gene Smith and Matthew Milan discussed conceptual models (which I’ve been playing around with for a while) and the more involved rich mapping, from soft systems thinking. Key takeaway for me was when modelling a system we should also describe its context (including the project itself). Other good stuff by people of Critical Mass (Milan again together with Sam Ladner) was provided in the form of ‘backcasting’, a very visual brainstorming method to be used in a workshop session with a client in order to envision desired project outcomes and map paths from the current situation to those outcomes (notes at The Chicken Test). [...] [...] Gene Smith and Matthew Milan discussed conceptual models (which I’ve been playing around with for a while) and the more involved rich mapping, from soft systems thinking. Key takeaway for me was when modelling a system we should also describe its context (including the project itself). Other good stuff by people of Critical Mass (Milan again together with Sam Ladner) was provided in the form of ‘backcasting’, a very visual brainstorming method to be used in a workshop session with a client in order to envision desired project outcomes and map paths from the current situation to those outcomes (notes at The Chicken Test). [...]

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