The document discusses the importance of nurturing creativity within agile teams to enhance productivity and achieve group flow. It provides insights into the nature of creativity, its sources, and practical exercises to foster collaborative problem-solving. Additionally, it identifies common impediments to creativity and offers strategies for continuous creative engagement within teams.

1. Continuous Creativity for Agile TeamsRoger BrownMark LevisonAgile 2010© 2010 Roger.W.Brown

3. Why should you care?Creativity increases productivityYour team can be more creativeKnowing how it works makes it easier to achieveTeams can achieve a state of Group Flow Creativity can be nurtured

4. Group FlowHow to Nurture itGroup CreativityWhere does it come from?What is Creativity?

5. What is Creativity?

6. Would you like to be more creative?

7. What is holding you back?

8. Creative people work alone, right?

9. Creative people are born that way, right?

11. 2x + 3y = zAnd then it happened…

12. What defines a creative idea?You tell us…

13. What defines a creative idea? Novel

14. Relevant

15. SpontaneousCreativity helps withProblem SolvingRefinement of Product and ProcessInvention and Innovation

16. Have you ever tried really hard to be creative?

17. Can creativity be learned?Aha!Mozartcoffeebrainstorminnovatethink!

18. There are many models for fostering creativity

19. A Neuro-Based ModelAttentionReflectionInsightAction

20. ExerciseUsing a single stroke, turn the Roman numeral seven, shown below, into an eight. VIIIf you get stuck, ask a partner for help

21. ExerciseUsing a single stroke, turn the Roman numeral 9, shown below, into a 6. IXIf you get stuck, ask a partner for help

22. ExerciseUsing a single stroke, turn the Roman numeral nine, shown below, into a six. IXIf you get stuck, ask a partner for help

23. Where does creativity come from?

24. Outdated SourcesSmarties The Muse

25. Genetics

26. School

27. IQFact or Myth?We use only 10% of our brain.

28. We use our whole brain, all the timeLogical?Creative?Longer branches, more dendritic spines, less preciseShorter branches, fewer dendritic spines, more precise

29. Brain Basics

30. Most “Thinking” is Subconcious

31. Brain Capacity and SpeedLong Term MemoryWorkingMemoryslowreal fast

32. Test Drive

33. Brain CircuitsNew InfoImpasseExisting Neural Map 1Existing Neural Map 2New Neural Map

34. What does creativity look like?© 2006 David Rock

35. Brain Wavesawareness reflection insight action

36. Group Creativity

37. Can a team be creative?

38. Famous Collaborations Apollo 13

39. J.R.R.Tolkien and the Inklings

40. Jobs and Wozniak

41. Lennon and McCartney … and Harrison and StarrNot-so-famous Collaborations Morse – Jackson – Gale – Vale

42. Darwin – Lyell – Malthus – WallaceExercise – 10 minCollaborative problem solving Choose a partner

43. Think of a challenge you have at work and write it down in 5 words or less Read the challenge to your partner. Look for a feeling of impasse.

44. Partner asks questions that facilitate reflection and watches facial expressions.

45. key words: quiet, deep, close, hunch

46. Switch roles after 4 minutes.

47. Class debrief.Impediments to CreativityYou tell us…

48. Our Top 5 Impediments to Creativity Too much detail in goal

49. Too open-ended a target

50. Command and control

51. Noisy, stressed mind

52. Yes, but…How to NurtureGroup Creativity

53. EmotionalSafety

54. Intrinsic Motivation autonomy

55. mastery

56. purpose

57. and a sense of progressWhat About Stress?PerformanceArousal

58. The Group Creativity Toolbox

59. Align to Common Goal

60. Prepare

61. Simple Factors Be creative!

62. Be visual

63. Be physicalCheck Assumptions

64. Make it safe to fail

65. Quiet Mind

66. Appropriate Brainstorming

67. Expand Your Universe Engage outsiders

68. Examine failures

69. Remove predictabilityMany Perspectives Innovation Games ™

70. Six Hats