Thump thump clap

I recently watched the film Bohemian Rhapsody about Freddy Mercury and the band Queen.

The title of this blog refers to the sounds made by the band at the start of their song, “We Will Rock You.”

There was a scene in the movie showing the origins of Thump Thump Clap, with the band adding it into the song purely to engage their fans more in their concert performances. It was to be the first of many engagement triggers that Queen used during their concerts. The premeditated thinking behind that simple act blew me away.

Audience engagement. It’s as important to a band as it is to an OSS transformation.

Thump Thump Clap. Simple. Brilliant. You could say it’s become more than just engaging. It’s become transcendent.

It got me thinking about what could the equivalent in OSS transformations be? How do we get the audience (stakeholders) participating to make the outcomes bigger and better than if only the project team were involved? Too momentous an experience for anyone to quibble about a technical off-note here or there.

There needs to be a performance involved. That implies a sandpit environment. There needs to be excitement around what the audience is seeing / hearing. There needs to be crowd involvement (or does there?).

There needs to be less dead-pan presentation than most of the OSS show-cases I’ve seen (and delivered if I’m being completely honest) 🙂

What are your Thump Thump Clap suggestions?

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