Rooms and Walls

Make room
for your team’s work.

A place to return to for personal preparation, shared work and discussions at different times. Consider the Room in the context of people, their work and their working memory.

XOHRE / WORKING ROOMConcept illustration

Keep the work and its context together.

A workshop question, team contributions and the diagram you are developing should not become disconnected files. A Room brings together the Walls around one piece of work. Enter the room, turn to the Wall you need and move closer to its board.

A Room contains 4–8 Walls. The preparation Wall is for the Room owner and Designer; shared working areas open according to each person’s role. You decide when to bring prepared content into the participants’ work.

The same room can host more than one discussion. The room’s current content and what happened in a particular interaction answer different questions. The professional-work direction explores this continuity and the relationship between personal and shared work in greater depth.

Work on the detail, then return to the whole.

Open focus view when working on a mind map, table or organisation chart. Edit the chosen structure in its own working area, then return to the whole board. Split view lets you see the overall layout alongside the detail.

Use a frame to define a working area and make space for different topics on the same board. Reference cards between Walls can keep the relationship visible as you move to another Wall.

Make each role in shared work clear.

Designing the room, contributing content and observing are different jobs. Distinguish what the Room owner, Designer, participant and observer can do. A person’s access to a Room is separate from team membership and permission to source records.

EXAMPLE ACTIVITY

Prepare a Room for a process-improvement session.

The team wants to understand why a customer request is waiting and agree on a better way of working.

01

Prepare the work

The facilitator collects the question, a draft of the current flow and the topics for discussion in the preparation area.

02

Open the shared work

Participants place steps, problems and suggestions together on the shared Wall.

03

Develop the detail

One person focuses on a diagram and another on a mind map, while the overall context remains on the same board.

04

Leave space to continue

Decisions and open questions stay with the work; the next session continues from the same Room.

AT THE END

A Room that separates preparation from shared contributions and brings different perspectives into one working context.

WHAT REMAINS?

01

Walls and visual context belonging to the work

02

Participants with clearly defined roles

03

A clear route between the detail and the whole

YOUR QUESTIONS

A closer
look.

Does every Wall have a fixed purpose?

Preparation and shared work provide the starting distinction. The topics of other Walls depend on how the work is organised; an eight-Wall scenario is not imposed on every Room.

Does joining a Room grant access to source systems?

No. A Room role and record permissions in your organisation’s source systems are evaluated separately.

Make room for
your next shared idea.

Bring ideas, records and decisions into the same context.