A workshop is a collaborative activity when participants are working together on a challenge.

You can facilitate a synchronous workshop where all participants are connected at the same time, or an asynchronous one that span across several days.

A workshop is divided by steps. The current step is managed by the facilitator. On each step participants can do a number of things:

• create cards,
• regroup cards into clusters,
• illustrate cards with file attachment,
• comment on a card,
• develop ideas with lists,
• vote on cards or clusters.
• evaluate cards.

There is number of different visualizations available:

• Card view that shows the clusters and their cards in vertical fashion
• Canvas view such as grids, columns or more complex ones such as the business model canvas
• Bar chart to display the result of a vote
• Bubble chart to display the result of an evaluation.
• Insight cloud to display the content as a smart word cloud

It make the workshop a good use-cases for:

• Explore a vision,
• Formulate a challenge,
• Understand a user, a product or a market,
• Brainstorm ideas,
• Develop and evaluate solutions or prototypes,
• Formalize an action plan,
• Assess a project or conduct a retrospective...

The simplest way to use Stormz is to pick one of our templates and play with it. There is a step by step tutorial that will explain you how to create your first workshop with a template.