Engaging teams with Rovo through fancy dress!

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With many folks geeking out on all the ways it's becoming easier and easier to wow people with how easy it is to use Rovo I thought it might be fun to share how we've engaged live audiences in how and why agents could actually be useful. 

This approach stemmed from us wanting to create fun and engaging ways to get folks thinking about how shape meaningful agents at conferences where they might not even have laptops - sounds difficult? Maybe like you'd even need superpowers to do it? That's what we thought 😉 

Here's how we've constructed our sessions inspired by an original discussion I had with Will Carey-Hill.

You will need...

• Enough fancy dress (that's "costumes" for the US readers) to give breakout teams of 4-6 lots of options for outfitting their "AIvengers" - the weirder the better. Source responsibly from your local charity/op shops for best approaches!
• Printouts of organisation 'comics' to prompt the teams on what their hero is solving
• Agent "canvases" and stickies/sharpies 

How the sessions run:

1. We provide some initial grounding in the System of Work and Atlassian apps (this changes often - make sure your view is up to date). Make sure to ground things in language that makes sense to normal humans not just the keen beans:
    
   
   
2. Walk through the core anatomy of an agent - again this tends to change with functionality, our view was a snapshot of the key areas at the time but aspects like surfaces and scenarios are now available that you might want to include also: 
   
   Tip: we spun up a sandbox people could use to play after each session
3. Setup the scenario! We walk the group through the activity - they'll be given a "system-of-work-analysis" describing an organisation with challenges, and have to create a physical manifestation of an Super-agent-hero that could help fix it through the medium of costuming up one of their team, and completing the Hero Canvas. 
   
   
   
4. Breakouts are assigned an organisation "System-of-work-analysis" and a "Hero Canvas". We created these using ChatGPT - make your own or adapt real life problems from your organisation! 
   
   
   
   
5. Teams have 13 minutes (for the Fibonacci fans 😜) to complete their Canvas and dress up one of their team! Make sure to prompt them to get dressing up asap and of course have some suitable superhero music on! Finish with a Superhero Sprint Review and get each team to show off their creations and explain how that agent solves the organisational problems they were given:
   
   
   
   
6. That's a wrap! BUT before you go with some tips on where to learn more, free Rovo certs etc, make sure to bring it back to how people can put this way of thinking (if maybe not the costumes... always...) into practice to put AI magic into their real organisation!