Give participants 10 minutes to individually map out individual steps, then come together with the rest of the team to synthesize
Instruct our participants to avoid getting mired in details at this point (e.g. we don’t need to include making API calls to servers when registering a user, just talk about registering the user)
Once you establish a batch of related touchpoints, group them into stages
Give participants another 10 minutes to individually come up with pain points and ideas for improvement for a particular step, then come together with the rest of the team to synthesize