Short presentation about the need for programmers to be creative. Agile methods combined with design thinking.

2. Good Old (Creative) Times
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3. Industrial Software Production
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4. The Black Box Approach
§ Part of a plan driven assembly line
§ Boxed creativity
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Customer
Interaction
Frequency
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5. Reality Check
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6. Internet Time
§ Complex Projects (interdependent, changing parameters)
§ Change: Evolving and moving targets
§ Adaptive Development
§ Fuzzier boundaries between companies (Outside-In)
t
Customer
Interaction
Frequency
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7. Agile Methods
§ Timeboxing - Sprints
§ Inspect & Adapt
§ Transparency
§ „Customer collaboration over contract negotiation“
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8. Innovation WITH Customers
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9. Design Thinking
A loose process model
and a comprehensive
body of knowledge to
solve problems and
generate innovative
ideas.
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10. Design Thinking and Agile: Similar Mindsets
§ Radical customer orientation
§ Incremental and iterative development
§ Prototyping
§ Constant learning
§ Fast Delivery
§ Self-organization
§ …
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11. Combining Design Thinking and Lean/Agile
Final
Solution
Planned
Solution
IMPROVING
ADAPTABILITY
Lean/Agile Methods
help build and deliver
solutions
more efficiently
REDUCING
UNCERTAINTY
Design Thinking
Provides
better requirements
and ongoing innovation
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12. The Return of the Creative Programmer
§ Design Thinking as an ongoing activity in agile projects
§ Creativity and social intelligence highly valued
§ Scrum Master as Design Thinking moderator
§ Project Lifetime relation of Product Owner and Team
Vision
Initial Backlog
Prototypes
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