With the ever increasing complexity involved in today’s technology, designers and developers are having to become more and more specialized. The greatest potential for innovation lies at the intersection between disciplines. Traditional brainstorming, used for decades and based on rapid idea generation free from critique, no longer is well suited to tackle the big sticky questions when everyone in the room is approaching the problem from the same knowledge base. Balanced teams of representatives from multiple disciplines focused on collaboration and continuous delivery have a greater chance of solving problems than siloed specialists.
This talk will dive into strategies both new and old drawn from a variety of domains that can be used to facilitate creative group thinking and drive innovation. These techniques are drawn from and inspired by companies large and small, the arts, design firms and case studies from my work at Carbon Five. They will show how conflicting views
22. Project Management
Research Strategy Design Build SupportRelease
Discovery Design Engineering
Handoff Handoff
Waterfall
Known Problem
Known Solution
Large Team
24. Project Management
Research Strategy Design Build SupportRelease
Discovery Design Engineering
Handoff Handoff
Agile XP
Known Problem
Unknown Solution
Mid-sized Team
35. 1. Brian Uzzi, The Myth of the Brainstorm
(http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all)
2. HBR “Want collaboration? Accept & actively
manage conflict.”
http://hbr.org/2005/03/want-collaboration-accept-and-actively-manage-conflict/ar/5
3. “How creativity works. What Broadway
musicals really teach us about collaboration.”
(http://www.slate.com/articles/life/do_the_math/2012/03/
how_creativity_works_what_broadway_musicals_really_teach_us_about_collaboration_.html)