Balanced Teams : How conflicting perspectives hatch creative solutions
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
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- 12. Proximity “The cross-pollination of ideas is really the valuable part of co-working” - Jacob Sayles of Office Nomads
- 13. “...10 times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus...” Photo MIT / webmuseum.mit.edu
- 14. Pixar Photo courtesy marcfalken | CC BY
- 15. •Co-located Teams •Visual Radiators •Full Team Reflections Proximity
- 16. Empathy “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” - Steve Jobs
- 18. Shopcraft as Soulcraft “Always try to hire people who yearn to be master craftspeople...” - Jason Fried, 37 Signals
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- 20. Practice
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- 28. Design Development FeatureDevelopment Time Product Owner }Product Team 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks
- 29. Design Development FeatureDevelopment Product Owner }Product Team Iteration 0 Discovery & Planning Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Reflect & Define Specify Build Build & Prep Test
- 30. Techniques •Provisional Personas •Experience Mapping •Sprint Experiment Planning •Bang vs Buck 2x2 Matrix •BDD Story Writing •Hybrid Prototyping •Living Style Guides •User Testing
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- 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)