This document discusses strategies for managing innovation in the newsroom. It provides examples of how the Wichita Eagle and Daily Herald transitioned from traditional workflows to multiplatform models. Some key tips include creating a business plan with goals and timelines, training staff as adult learners by explaining relevance and benefits, providing support through materials and coaching, celebrating successes for morale, and being prepared for revisions as plans evolve. The overall message is that change requires careful management of people and processes to be successful.
Top 5 Meeting Tips Made Possible by JIRA and ConfluenceAtlassian
Meetings have become a necessary evil of corporate life. They are essential to working together as a team, but they can easily become a waste of time and leave attendees with no clear outcomes. In fact, the average employee wastes over 30 hours each month in unproductive meetings. John and Mary are meeting gurus who have facilitated everything from sprint planning meetings to all-day strategy sessions for executives. Whether you run meetings or just want to take back your calendar, you'll learn our tried and tested rules for effective meetings for both attendees and facilitators. Plus, discover 5 ways JIRA and Confluence help you take meetings from painful to productive.
Mary Raleigh, Strategy & Operations Team Lead, Atlassian
John Wetenhall, Strategy & Operations Manager, Confluence, Atlassian
Agile teams operate in the context of an organization, whether it's a small start-up or a global corporation. Organizations that are clear about why they are in business will have a mission identified that expresses what they're all about. A great mission can provide the spice that transforms a team from one that delivers features and projects, to one that passionately delivers business value with fire-breathing intensity. This session will explore how you can utilize the mission of an organization to spice up a team's work, and how a team with a great mission behind it can influence agility throughout an organization.
Top 5 Meeting Tips Made Possible by JIRA and ConfluenceAtlassian
Meetings have become a necessary evil of corporate life. They are essential to working together as a team, but they can easily become a waste of time and leave attendees with no clear outcomes. In fact, the average employee wastes over 30 hours each month in unproductive meetings. John and Mary are meeting gurus who have facilitated everything from sprint planning meetings to all-day strategy sessions for executives. Whether you run meetings or just want to take back your calendar, you'll learn our tried and tested rules for effective meetings for both attendees and facilitators. Plus, discover 5 ways JIRA and Confluence help you take meetings from painful to productive.
Mary Raleigh, Strategy & Operations Team Lead, Atlassian
John Wetenhall, Strategy & Operations Manager, Confluence, Atlassian
Agile teams operate in the context of an organization, whether it's a small start-up or a global corporation. Organizations that are clear about why they are in business will have a mission identified that expresses what they're all about. A great mission can provide the spice that transforms a team from one that delivers features and projects, to one that passionately delivers business value with fire-breathing intensity. This session will explore how you can utilize the mission of an organization to spice up a team's work, and how a team with a great mission behind it can influence agility throughout an organization.
The Unknowns in Product Development by Spotify Director of ProductProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Data is great - but don't go overboard!
- Innovation comes with (tons of) uncertainty - the trick is to navigate it!
- Dance to the tune and never forget the end goal.
GROW is one of the effective coaching models which is used for coaching high performance team or individual in earlier days, now it is been used by Corporate and business coaching.
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS - Managing Time & Mindset for Ultimate SuccessAddy Suhut
This ROADMAP TO SUCCESS guide is a “Success Journey Roadmap” comprising a Six-Step or Six-Checkpoint Step-by-Step System of Time & Mindset Management for anyone with dreams of success.
Indistractable: Nir Eyal Book Talk and SigningOptimizely
Co-hosted by: Product School
Ever get the feeling the world is full of too many distractions? Research shows the ability to stay focused is a competitive advantage, in work and in life. However, in an age of ever-increasing demands on our attention, how do we get the best from technology without letting it get the best of us?
Join Optimizely, Product School, and Bay Area digital leaders and disrupters for a talk and signing of Nir Eyal's latest book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, and learn how to master the skill of the century. Enjoy an evening of networking with your peers and hear from Nir, a former Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer and author of Hooked and Indistractable, as he dissects the difficulties of staying on task in modern times and presents attention-strengthening strategies from his new book.
Space and books onsite are limited, so register today to save your spot and your signed copy of Indistractable.
How is it possible that a seemingly highly skilled team struggle to meet business deadlines whilst a team of average skilled professionals consistently deliver value to their client? Do the skills of the team members have any outcome on the delivery of the team? Of course they do, but without the secret sauce even the best team will fail. The uncomfortable truth is that human beings do not do ANYTHING unless they are sufficiently motivated to do so, despite what they may say they will do. Unfortunately, in most organisations, people learn to say what their managers want to hear and then still proceed to do the opposite. Why do people do this? In this talk we will explore how an Agile approach makes average teams become great teams through the injection of one vital ingredient: motivation. We will explore how an Agile approach gets people in all kinds of industries (not only developers!) become motivated to be successful without them even realizing it. The key principles of Agile that, probably coincidently, addresses the fundamentals of human motivation, will be uncovered.
Jaco heads DVT, a team of 600 staff that specialises in Agile software development, testing and related services for clients in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He has more than 20 years IT experience in the field of software development and has been involved in the architecture, design and construction of various size software development projects, some of which were in the utilities, financial and insurance industries. Jaco holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Johannesburg and has focused his Ph.D. research on object oriented software design and information security.
Indistractable - How to Master the Skill of the CenturyNir Eyal
Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, wrote the book on the secret psychology of technology. However, in this talk, Nir provides the antidote to the current distraction crisis.
Nir shares the findings of his five years of research into how to master what he calls, "the skill of the century," the power to be "Indistractable." Nir's entertaining, research-backed talk, provides practical advice and memorable strategies for managing distraction in business and life.
Jen Kohan - Maternity and Neonatal Learning System: smoking in pregnancyInnovation Agency
Presentation by Jen Kohan, Head of Coaching, Innovation Agency at Maternity and Neonatal Learning System: smoking in pregnancy event on Wednesday 11 September at Haydock Park Racecourse.
How should teams use Spikes? Which sizing and estimating technique are we teaching? What about dedicated SMs or POs and tasking out stories during Sprint Planning? When there is more than one coach, we all give different advice. From the team’s perspective, they sometimes want options but they often just want a single “right” answer and are frustrated with different answers. In Christen’s talk, she will cover a few key areas where coaches disagree on the techniques and share some of her experience when working with multiple coaches that led to a common approach and consistent guidance. With examples and advice in this talk, you will have some common practice ideas to take back to the office and discuss with your fellow coaches.
A ‘Continuous Improvement culture’ is one where both leaders and front line workers constantly drive for improvement, which will be evident from the ‘work habits’
The Unknowns in Product Development by Spotify Director of ProductProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- Data is great - but don't go overboard!
- Innovation comes with (tons of) uncertainty - the trick is to navigate it!
- Dance to the tune and never forget the end goal.
GROW is one of the effective coaching models which is used for coaching high performance team or individual in earlier days, now it is been used by Corporate and business coaching.
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS - Managing Time & Mindset for Ultimate SuccessAddy Suhut
This ROADMAP TO SUCCESS guide is a “Success Journey Roadmap” comprising a Six-Step or Six-Checkpoint Step-by-Step System of Time & Mindset Management for anyone with dreams of success.
Indistractable: Nir Eyal Book Talk and SigningOptimizely
Co-hosted by: Product School
Ever get the feeling the world is full of too many distractions? Research shows the ability to stay focused is a competitive advantage, in work and in life. However, in an age of ever-increasing demands on our attention, how do we get the best from technology without letting it get the best of us?
Join Optimizely, Product School, and Bay Area digital leaders and disrupters for a talk and signing of Nir Eyal's latest book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, and learn how to master the skill of the century. Enjoy an evening of networking with your peers and hear from Nir, a former Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer and author of Hooked and Indistractable, as he dissects the difficulties of staying on task in modern times and presents attention-strengthening strategies from his new book.
Space and books onsite are limited, so register today to save your spot and your signed copy of Indistractable.
How is it possible that a seemingly highly skilled team struggle to meet business deadlines whilst a team of average skilled professionals consistently deliver value to their client? Do the skills of the team members have any outcome on the delivery of the team? Of course they do, but without the secret sauce even the best team will fail. The uncomfortable truth is that human beings do not do ANYTHING unless they are sufficiently motivated to do so, despite what they may say they will do. Unfortunately, in most organisations, people learn to say what their managers want to hear and then still proceed to do the opposite. Why do people do this? In this talk we will explore how an Agile approach makes average teams become great teams through the injection of one vital ingredient: motivation. We will explore how an Agile approach gets people in all kinds of industries (not only developers!) become motivated to be successful without them even realizing it. The key principles of Agile that, probably coincidently, addresses the fundamentals of human motivation, will be uncovered.
Jaco heads DVT, a team of 600 staff that specialises in Agile software development, testing and related services for clients in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He has more than 20 years IT experience in the field of software development and has been involved in the architecture, design and construction of various size software development projects, some of which were in the utilities, financial and insurance industries. Jaco holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Johannesburg and has focused his Ph.D. research on object oriented software design and information security.
Indistractable - How to Master the Skill of the CenturyNir Eyal
Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, wrote the book on the secret psychology of technology. However, in this talk, Nir provides the antidote to the current distraction crisis.
Nir shares the findings of his five years of research into how to master what he calls, "the skill of the century," the power to be "Indistractable." Nir's entertaining, research-backed talk, provides practical advice and memorable strategies for managing distraction in business and life.
Jen Kohan - Maternity and Neonatal Learning System: smoking in pregnancyInnovation Agency
Presentation by Jen Kohan, Head of Coaching, Innovation Agency at Maternity and Neonatal Learning System: smoking in pregnancy event on Wednesday 11 September at Haydock Park Racecourse.
How should teams use Spikes? Which sizing and estimating technique are we teaching? What about dedicated SMs or POs and tasking out stories during Sprint Planning? When there is more than one coach, we all give different advice. From the team’s perspective, they sometimes want options but they often just want a single “right” answer and are frustrated with different answers. In Christen’s talk, she will cover a few key areas where coaches disagree on the techniques and share some of her experience when working with multiple coaches that led to a common approach and consistent guidance. With examples and advice in this talk, you will have some common practice ideas to take back to the office and discuss with your fellow coaches.
A ‘Continuous Improvement culture’ is one where both leaders and front line workers constantly drive for improvement, which will be evident from the ‘work habits’
This presentation, taken from Francois Truffaut's 1970 film of the same title.
It is part of the masters course "History and Philosophy of Education:" www.culture-and-upbringing.com
Explores the relationship of phenomenlogy and pedagogy, and the role of pedagogical tact as a form of pathic knowledge and a bridge between theory and practice.
This presentation looks at specific learning theories, the idea of learning theory in general, and develops a notion of "institutional learning" (and teaching) to explain why xMOOCs have become so popular and hold (at least some) promise.
Attaining Agile Fluency: Coaching Techniques - Focus on Goals Over ProcessRavi Kumar
What is coaching?
“It is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within the person, and enabling them to use them to the best of their ability” — wikipedia
Individuals and Interactions over Process and Tools.
The above is one of the 4 values espoused in the manifesto but yet it is common to see many agile coaches engage with teams and organisations advocating more and more processes. This is a common sight with new teams and also with teams on the path of agile transition from few months to few years irrespective of the competency, skills and maturity of the teams. Agile Fluency model created by Diana Larse and James Shore highlights the focus on value over compliance and practices at any given level
“ Team fluency depends on more than just the capability of the individuals on the team. It also depends on management structures, relationships, organizational culture, and more. Don’t make the mistake of blaming individuals for low team fluency, or assuming that one highly-skilled individual will guarantee high team fluency ”
An agile coach responsible for building high performing teams will need right set of powerful tools and techniques to leverage while working with teams and also to set the right expectations to both management and teams. This talk will draw from experience using few such powerful tools mentioned below while coaching teams attain fluency.
1) Using Agile Fluency @ High Level to Set Expectations
2) Setting Team Norms & Working Agreements
3) Deliberate Practice
4) Creating Enablers for a Learning Organisation
5) Simple Measures
The Agile Retrospective is one of the primary feedback loops for a team to drive it's continuous improvement. In this short deck we look at 5W+H of retros. What are they, why are they needed, who needs to attend (and not), when do they need to be run, where (under what conditions) do they need to be run and tips and tricks on how to run a retro.
Agile Marketing: 5 Principles of Agility for Content Marketing - Scott BrinkerMarketo
Scott Brinker, CTO of ion interactive, discusses the five principles of agility for content marketing and how to apply the agile process to your projects.
Are you ready to innovate?
Just talking about "innovation" is not enough...
Great companies ask "what is going right?" and "how we can it do more?" Ask also "why" when something went well, not only when something went wrong.
Start realizing your potential and focus on your strenghts.
Discover your BrightSpots for Growth!
1. Copy Editors
Multiplatform Editors
How to manage innovation
in the newsroom
Michael Roehrman, Wichita Eagle
Teresa Schmedding, Daily Herald Media Group
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7. The Eagle: Why
Eliminate the overnight “web dump”
Transform into multiplatform journalists
– Move content under control of digital editor
– Move copy editing and design on all
platforms under one editor
Reverse workflow – first to digital, print
at back: Print no longer the endpoint, but a
point
8. Tips for implementing change
How you can do it without killing
yourself, your staff or your bosses –
and without getting killed by all
9. Business plan
Change can’t be for change’s sake
Need a business plan
Layer goals: Critical, would like, not important
Timeline and backup timeline
When are you done?
10. Manage people
Adult learners need context
Culture of show me how
Why important to them?
How will this make my job better?
Solicit their input. And listen to it.
Sometimes, it’s OK to say “just cuz”
11. Big training
Little handouts
in digestible bites
with pictures
Follow up with
tips
Reward, praise
Overtrain,
overteach,
overcoach
12. What’s your PR campaign?
Plan it out
What are you celebrating?
What are you excited about?
What are others excited about?
13.
14. Manage your team
Don’t go it alone
Find strongest and weakest links, train
to both
Keep your team enthused
Stack the deck in your favor
Admit up front that no plan is perfect
Be prepared for backsliding
Continuous feedback loop
15. Manage yourself
Make sure you take breaks
Prepare yourself for the questions
Hide when you need to
Give yourself time 4-6 weeks after
implementation for questions
Give yourself 1 day a month forever
Plan for revisions
Plan for failure
Plan to change the plan
16. Final thought
“Society is always taken by surprise at
any new example of common sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Editor's Notes
Context is key for adult learners Use news judgment, communication skills as editors/designers