Get examples from a real-life application of a Whole Brain® Hackathon and gain a framework for getting to the best possible solutions as quickly as possible.
The problem: how to get off your present plateau and move to a higher level of production efficiency. You have re-engineered the organization, tweaked all the equipment, trained the people, created teams. Now, how do you increase the efficiency of a group of people? How do you get more output from your existing human resources?
Whether you are trying to inject new ideas into your business or want to develop your leadership team, BrainSpark is THE way your business can tap into the surging new Creativity Culture. This presentation is a quick introduction on who we are and how we can help.
Agile India 2021: 8 guiding principles for Agile Coaches (or change agents)Jason Yip
The document outlines 8 principles for effective Agile coaching as developed by the Spotify Ads R&D Agile Coaching team. The principles are: 1) Build relationships with both project teams and senior leadership for insight and influence. 2) Focus on long-term systems and habits over short-term wins. 3) Enable others rather than becoming operational. 4) Involve existing leaders in problem-solving. 5) Balance quick wins with addressing underlying issues. 6) Let coaching strategy follow business strategy and needs. 7) Collaboration between coaches is more effective than silos. 8) Intentionally share work to influence change, not just organically.
This document presents a competency framework to help ScrumMasters and coaches understand their level of competency in various domains. It includes four levels - New, Shu, Ha, Ri - to assess competency in areas like Agile principles, processes, practices, facilitation, teaching, leadership, coaching, technical skills, and business understanding. The framework is intended as a tool for self-reflection and identifying next steps for personal growth.
Creative problem solving involves generating innovative solutions rather than standard procedures. It uses tools like problem restatement to broaden perspectives, SWOT analysis to focus on strengths and opportunities, and brainstorming to produce radical ideas without criticism. Idea generation methods include SCAMPER, brainstorming, mind mapping, role playing, and brainwriting to facilitate creative thinking. These techniques aim to reduce inhibitions and connect ideas in new ways to address challenges.
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over outputEdwin Dando
This document discusses alternatives to simply scaling up agile processes. It argues that organizations should focus on continuously improving outcomes rather than just increasing output or volume. Some key points made include:
- Agile is about mindset and values, not processes, and scaling up risks losing those. Organizations should fix weaknesses before scaling.
- True scaling happens incrementally based on measuring business impacts, not just adopting more processes. Teams should regularly inspect and adapt.
- There are many ways to improve value, quality and productivity within existing teams, like improving technical practices and skills, before considering larger scale changes.
- Scaling is primarily a "people problem" - organizations should focus on building networks between self-organ
The document discusses competencies and skill levels for various scrum roles including scrum master, senior scrum master, company scrum coach, and professional skills. It provides descriptions of why each role exists, what the responsibilities are, how success is measured, and which competencies are required. It also defines different skill levels from questioning to mastering and how each level is characterized in terms of experience and validation from others.
Enterprise Collaboration Change Management: 5 Tips To Ensure SuccessRightpoint
Enterprise social seems like a Catch-22—if you do stand it up and don't get an 80% increase in productivity if feels like a failure; if you don't stand it up then you're left in the dark ages. What's an organization to do?
During this webinar, Change Architect Katie Priest explored five change management strategies to increase usage and ultimately adoption within the social enterprise focusing on the following:
1. Start with what you know
2. Rally the troops
3. Empower and motivate
4. Recognize and reward
5. Measure and iterate
The problem: how to get off your present plateau and move to a higher level of production efficiency. You have re-engineered the organization, tweaked all the equipment, trained the people, created teams. Now, how do you increase the efficiency of a group of people? How do you get more output from your existing human resources?
Whether you are trying to inject new ideas into your business or want to develop your leadership team, BrainSpark is THE way your business can tap into the surging new Creativity Culture. This presentation is a quick introduction on who we are and how we can help.
Agile India 2021: 8 guiding principles for Agile Coaches (or change agents)Jason Yip
The document outlines 8 principles for effective Agile coaching as developed by the Spotify Ads R&D Agile Coaching team. The principles are: 1) Build relationships with both project teams and senior leadership for insight and influence. 2) Focus on long-term systems and habits over short-term wins. 3) Enable others rather than becoming operational. 4) Involve existing leaders in problem-solving. 5) Balance quick wins with addressing underlying issues. 6) Let coaching strategy follow business strategy and needs. 7) Collaboration between coaches is more effective than silos. 8) Intentionally share work to influence change, not just organically.
This document presents a competency framework to help ScrumMasters and coaches understand their level of competency in various domains. It includes four levels - New, Shu, Ha, Ri - to assess competency in areas like Agile principles, processes, practices, facilitation, teaching, leadership, coaching, technical skills, and business understanding. The framework is intended as a tool for self-reflection and identifying next steps for personal growth.
Creative problem solving involves generating innovative solutions rather than standard procedures. It uses tools like problem restatement to broaden perspectives, SWOT analysis to focus on strengths and opportunities, and brainstorming to produce radical ideas without criticism. Idea generation methods include SCAMPER, brainstorming, mind mapping, role playing, and brainwriting to facilitate creative thinking. These techniques aim to reduce inhibitions and connect ideas in new ways to address challenges.
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over outputEdwin Dando
This document discusses alternatives to simply scaling up agile processes. It argues that organizations should focus on continuously improving outcomes rather than just increasing output or volume. Some key points made include:
- Agile is about mindset and values, not processes, and scaling up risks losing those. Organizations should fix weaknesses before scaling.
- True scaling happens incrementally based on measuring business impacts, not just adopting more processes. Teams should regularly inspect and adapt.
- There are many ways to improve value, quality and productivity within existing teams, like improving technical practices and skills, before considering larger scale changes.
- Scaling is primarily a "people problem" - organizations should focus on building networks between self-organ
The document discusses competencies and skill levels for various scrum roles including scrum master, senior scrum master, company scrum coach, and professional skills. It provides descriptions of why each role exists, what the responsibilities are, how success is measured, and which competencies are required. It also defines different skill levels from questioning to mastering and how each level is characterized in terms of experience and validation from others.
Enterprise Collaboration Change Management: 5 Tips To Ensure SuccessRightpoint
Enterprise social seems like a Catch-22—if you do stand it up and don't get an 80% increase in productivity if feels like a failure; if you don't stand it up then you're left in the dark ages. What's an organization to do?
During this webinar, Change Architect Katie Priest explored five change management strategies to increase usage and ultimately adoption within the social enterprise focusing on the following:
1. Start with what you know
2. Rally the troops
3. Empower and motivate
4. Recognize and reward
5. Measure and iterate
Idea Generator Chapter 5 - Ten tools to enhance your team's performance bill woodruff
This document outlines 10 tools to enhance team performance as described in Ken Hudson's book "The Idea Generator". The tools include pushing teams out of their comfort zone, studying high-performing outside teams, building diverse teams, focusing on individuals to form strong teams, aiming for quick wins alongside long-term goals, being receptive to new ideas, creating non-linear "out of the box" teams, defining success criteria, building teams around passion, and imagining the perfect team result before planning steps to achieve it. Application examples are provided for effectively implementing each tool.
The document discusses agile team member hiring and how involving the entire team can improve the process. It advocates applying agile principles like self-organization, continuous improvement, and responding to change. An exercise has teams create a specific hiring process for a position. Insights from experience emphasize letting involvement emerge over time, using teams as focus groups, and defining success metrics. Interactive parts delve deeper into providing candidates insights, their perspective, and trial work approaches. The goal is convincing bosses that agile hiring yields less bottlenecks, improved quality, and superior onboarding through shared effort and team participation.
SPL Strategic Plan Preparing Team Final ReportJim Loter
The Seattle Public Library’s Leadership Team chartered a Strategic Plan Preparing Team (SPPrT) with the broad goal of setting the stage for strategic plan implementation by developing recommendations to support an organizational culture of innovation.
Managers and the land of the lost 2016 octSteven Martin
hat should you be doing as a Manager who is transitioning / managing in an Agile environment? Learn an exercise you can do with your Managers to help them determine what their role is in a changing Agile environment.
Here’s the brutal truth:
Cascading OKRs does not work, it is a flaw, time-consuming, and hard to track and measure.
Integrative OKRs empowers employees to contribute autonomously to the company’s vision
Tips for creating a Self Organizing TeamsYves Hanoulle
The presentation was delivered in
Kjiv (AgileEE)
Geneve (AgileTourGeneve),
Agilis2009 (Iceland)
Scandinavian Developer Conference 2010
Agile Tour Bordeaux 2010
May the Forss be with you - Lean Kanban Centeral Europe 2012Håkan Forss
It is a period of process efficiency war. Rebel flow-based change agents, striking with hidden knowledge, have won their first victory against the evil of Resource Efficiency and Big Planning Upfront.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to uncover the ultimate weapons, the Kanban Method and Toyota Kata.
Pursued by sinister agents of Resource Efficiency, the change agents races home to their teams, custodians of the uncovered weapons that can save the organizations and restore customer delight in the galaxy.
Let’s hear what the Rebel change agent Håkan Forss has to share…
Growing your business can be hard work. But, it becomes even harder when you continually focus on “areas for improvement”… There is an alternative; it is called a “Bright Spots Approach”.
In this presentation you will learn:
- Why you should focus more on bright spots
- How other companies are successfully using bright spots to grow faster
- Why bright spots focus will also help you fix the weak spots in your company
- How you can get started quickly
A company is an organism. It lives and grows. Introducing new strategy into the organism can rejuvenate and strengthen the entire system. It can also choke the system at different points, preventing the organism from thriving. This presentation will help you understand how to avoid and overcome the 7 choke points of strategy implementation.
The document discusses training your brain to improve productivity, creativity, and performance. It provides an introduction to the brain and prefrontal cortex, noting the prefrontal cortex has limitations in that it is small, energy intensive, serial, and fussy. The document proposes ways to improve brain fitness through cognitive, physical, social, and recharge activities like nutrition, sleep, and mental stimulation.
Want know more about the Product Owner role and maximize the value of your product?
Check the E-Book "8 Stances of a Product Owner" and create more valuable products.
The Product Owner as a Leader, Communicator, Negotiator, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Manager, Business Analyst and Facilitator.
This E-Book is a personal perspective from from Antonio Costa - Professional Scrum Trainer from Scrum.org about the Role of the Product Owner. Translated to English by me and Daniele Fontainha
A Leadership Survival Guide to Transformation - Aldo Rall & Andy Cooper - Agi...AgileNZ Conference
Agile has become a source of disruption to organisations and leadership. Prevailing trends shows that organisations are de-layering and some are even decimating their hierarchies. This disruption driven by Agile and, more recently, DevOps and Agile Scaling, challenges tradition; there is a call for wider skill sets and controlled, sustainable transformations, pushing leadership and organisations into wider and often conflicting and ambiguous contexts.
About Aldo Rall & Andy Cooper:
Aldo has over 18 years’ experience in a range of industries including financial services, healthcare, IT, management consulting and education in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. He's worked with a range of clients on Agile transformations as an Agile and Testing Coach. Aldo remains fascinated with continuous change in industry, which ensures there is always something new to learn, regardless of experience levels or qualifications. Over time, Aldo has honed his skills in the practical elements of developing working software but his greatest passion lies in the people dimension of the people-process-technology mix and how this translates into successful IT strategy, teams, projects and practitioners.
Andy Cooper is the Group Manager Global for Software Education. Andy is responsible for developing SoftEd’s training and consulting business outside of Australia and New Zealand and works with clients developing their agility around the world. Andy has a strong interest in Agility for Business as an Agile Marketer at CA Technologies and was a track lead on the Business Agility Track for the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). Andy has over 20 years' experience working for technology companies such as CA, Oracle and Informix in business and consulting roles and has managed and worked in teams spanning NZ, Australia, Asia and the US.
Becoming Agile: Agile Transitions in Practice - Rashina Hoda - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
Agile adoption has been typically understood as a one-off organisational process involving a staged selection of Agile development practices. This does not account for the differences in the pace and effectiveness of individual teams transitioning to Agile development.
About Rashina Hoda:
Dr Rashina Hoda is an internationally renowned researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has 10+ years' experience studying Agile teams and is the author of 60+ publications on Agile self-organisation, project management, knowledge management, reflective practice, task allocation and more.
Rashina served as the Research Chair of the Agile India 2012 conference and recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at the flagship international conference on software engineering (ICSE2017) for her ‘grounded theory of becoming Agile’ that explains the multiple dimensions of Agile transitions in practice.
She created and teaches the Agile course at UoA in close collaboration with industry and loves to present the 'voice of Agile research' to industry and academia alike.
Agile Australia 2017 - Memories from the TrenchesMarcio Sete
The document discusses how a data center migration was executed using eight Lean-Agile principles. The principles focused on visualizing work, collaborating, reducing work-in-progress, ensuring the right work was being done at the right time, celebrating wins, using feedback loops, building a great team, and sharing experiences. Applying these principles resulted in improved flow efficiency, reduced lead times, increased throughput, lower discard rates, and an overall successful migration.
Is customized training in your learning budget for
2015? Before you laugh, check out HRDQ’s Reproducible
Training Library (p. 4). A collection of 75 instructor-led
and e-learning programs, it’s a very affordable, soft-skills
courseware solution that will put tailor-made training
within your reach.
HR World - Nikola Jovanović - Kolumna 6 - Do you have what it takes to keep y...Nikola Jovanovic
The document discusses how the talent market has become more active during the pandemic, as remote work has allowed employees more flexibility and access to opportunities globally. While employee retention rates may appear stable currently, talents that companies most want to retain are being pursued aggressively by other organizations. It warns that waiting for talents to announce an offer is too late, and advises companies to proactively adapt their talent strategies, check in with employees to understand changing needs, and involve top talents in helping shape the future direction of the organization through experimentation and development opportunities. Doing so can help engage talents and make the company an attractive employer during uncertain times.
Strategic planning for agile leaders - AgileAus 2019 WorkshopMia Horrigan
Learn the mindset you need to support an Agile change across organisational structure, processes, culture and teams.
Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organisation be successful, yet their role in an Agile environment can be quite different from what they are used to.
In this workshop, you’ll learn about the Agile mindset and what it means as a leader to create the right conditions for Agile to thrive. We’ll focus on the pragmatic aspects of Agile leadership, the role of leadership in Agile transformation, and how to support cultural changes, as well as the structures and operating models to align teams, programs and portfolios and help them work in harmony.
During this workshop you’ll learn:
About the Agile mindset and why it’s important for leaders
How mindset, culture, and values influence your ability to be Agile
How to create a high-performance culture
Practical skills for helping you set up and support Agile teams, programs and portfolios
Pragmatic techniques for scaling an Agile mindset
Unlocking the metrics for measuring your organisational agility.
This workshop is suitable for:
Managers embarking on an Agile transformation
Line managers, Product Owners and Business Owners who want to get the most out of their Agile journey
Portfolio, Program and Product Managers who want to get the most out of Agile ways of working.
The Innovation Bootcamp is a condense program, in which ideas are upgraded to valuable business cases with high alignment with the core strategy of the company.
This document summarizes an innovation bootcamp hosted by Corporate Acceleration to help companies bring ideas to market. The bootcamp condensed the innovation process into a single intensive day. Teams worked to explore, refine, and validate their ideas through pitching and feedback. By the end of the day, teams advanced the most promising concepts and 5 ideas were selected for further development. The bootcamp aligned innovation with company strategy, validated ideas, and accelerated time to market through its lean startup approach of rapid prototyping and testing assumptions.
Idea Generator Chapter 5 - Ten tools to enhance your team's performance bill woodruff
This document outlines 10 tools to enhance team performance as described in Ken Hudson's book "The Idea Generator". The tools include pushing teams out of their comfort zone, studying high-performing outside teams, building diverse teams, focusing on individuals to form strong teams, aiming for quick wins alongside long-term goals, being receptive to new ideas, creating non-linear "out of the box" teams, defining success criteria, building teams around passion, and imagining the perfect team result before planning steps to achieve it. Application examples are provided for effectively implementing each tool.
The document discusses agile team member hiring and how involving the entire team can improve the process. It advocates applying agile principles like self-organization, continuous improvement, and responding to change. An exercise has teams create a specific hiring process for a position. Insights from experience emphasize letting involvement emerge over time, using teams as focus groups, and defining success metrics. Interactive parts delve deeper into providing candidates insights, their perspective, and trial work approaches. The goal is convincing bosses that agile hiring yields less bottlenecks, improved quality, and superior onboarding through shared effort and team participation.
SPL Strategic Plan Preparing Team Final ReportJim Loter
The Seattle Public Library’s Leadership Team chartered a Strategic Plan Preparing Team (SPPrT) with the broad goal of setting the stage for strategic plan implementation by developing recommendations to support an organizational culture of innovation.
Managers and the land of the lost 2016 octSteven Martin
hat should you be doing as a Manager who is transitioning / managing in an Agile environment? Learn an exercise you can do with your Managers to help them determine what their role is in a changing Agile environment.
Here’s the brutal truth:
Cascading OKRs does not work, it is a flaw, time-consuming, and hard to track and measure.
Integrative OKRs empowers employees to contribute autonomously to the company’s vision
Tips for creating a Self Organizing TeamsYves Hanoulle
The presentation was delivered in
Kjiv (AgileEE)
Geneve (AgileTourGeneve),
Agilis2009 (Iceland)
Scandinavian Developer Conference 2010
Agile Tour Bordeaux 2010
May the Forss be with you - Lean Kanban Centeral Europe 2012Håkan Forss
It is a period of process efficiency war. Rebel flow-based change agents, striking with hidden knowledge, have won their first victory against the evil of Resource Efficiency and Big Planning Upfront.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to uncover the ultimate weapons, the Kanban Method and Toyota Kata.
Pursued by sinister agents of Resource Efficiency, the change agents races home to their teams, custodians of the uncovered weapons that can save the organizations and restore customer delight in the galaxy.
Let’s hear what the Rebel change agent Håkan Forss has to share…
Growing your business can be hard work. But, it becomes even harder when you continually focus on “areas for improvement”… There is an alternative; it is called a “Bright Spots Approach”.
In this presentation you will learn:
- Why you should focus more on bright spots
- How other companies are successfully using bright spots to grow faster
- Why bright spots focus will also help you fix the weak spots in your company
- How you can get started quickly
A company is an organism. It lives and grows. Introducing new strategy into the organism can rejuvenate and strengthen the entire system. It can also choke the system at different points, preventing the organism from thriving. This presentation will help you understand how to avoid and overcome the 7 choke points of strategy implementation.
The document discusses training your brain to improve productivity, creativity, and performance. It provides an introduction to the brain and prefrontal cortex, noting the prefrontal cortex has limitations in that it is small, energy intensive, serial, and fussy. The document proposes ways to improve brain fitness through cognitive, physical, social, and recharge activities like nutrition, sleep, and mental stimulation.
Want know more about the Product Owner role and maximize the value of your product?
Check the E-Book "8 Stances of a Product Owner" and create more valuable products.
The Product Owner as a Leader, Communicator, Negotiator, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Manager, Business Analyst and Facilitator.
This E-Book is a personal perspective from from Antonio Costa - Professional Scrum Trainer from Scrum.org about the Role of the Product Owner. Translated to English by me and Daniele Fontainha
A Leadership Survival Guide to Transformation - Aldo Rall & Andy Cooper - Agi...AgileNZ Conference
Agile has become a source of disruption to organisations and leadership. Prevailing trends shows that organisations are de-layering and some are even decimating their hierarchies. This disruption driven by Agile and, more recently, DevOps and Agile Scaling, challenges tradition; there is a call for wider skill sets and controlled, sustainable transformations, pushing leadership and organisations into wider and often conflicting and ambiguous contexts.
About Aldo Rall & Andy Cooper:
Aldo has over 18 years’ experience in a range of industries including financial services, healthcare, IT, management consulting and education in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. He's worked with a range of clients on Agile transformations as an Agile and Testing Coach. Aldo remains fascinated with continuous change in industry, which ensures there is always something new to learn, regardless of experience levels or qualifications. Over time, Aldo has honed his skills in the practical elements of developing working software but his greatest passion lies in the people dimension of the people-process-technology mix and how this translates into successful IT strategy, teams, projects and practitioners.
Andy Cooper is the Group Manager Global for Software Education. Andy is responsible for developing SoftEd’s training and consulting business outside of Australia and New Zealand and works with clients developing their agility around the world. Andy has a strong interest in Agility for Business as an Agile Marketer at CA Technologies and was a track lead on the Business Agility Track for the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). Andy has over 20 years' experience working for technology companies such as CA, Oracle and Informix in business and consulting roles and has managed and worked in teams spanning NZ, Australia, Asia and the US.
Becoming Agile: Agile Transitions in Practice - Rashina Hoda - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
Agile adoption has been typically understood as a one-off organisational process involving a staged selection of Agile development practices. This does not account for the differences in the pace and effectiveness of individual teams transitioning to Agile development.
About Rashina Hoda:
Dr Rashina Hoda is an internationally renowned researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has 10+ years' experience studying Agile teams and is the author of 60+ publications on Agile self-organisation, project management, knowledge management, reflective practice, task allocation and more.
Rashina served as the Research Chair of the Agile India 2012 conference and recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at the flagship international conference on software engineering (ICSE2017) for her ‘grounded theory of becoming Agile’ that explains the multiple dimensions of Agile transitions in practice.
She created and teaches the Agile course at UoA in close collaboration with industry and loves to present the 'voice of Agile research' to industry and academia alike.
Agile Australia 2017 - Memories from the TrenchesMarcio Sete
The document discusses how a data center migration was executed using eight Lean-Agile principles. The principles focused on visualizing work, collaborating, reducing work-in-progress, ensuring the right work was being done at the right time, celebrating wins, using feedback loops, building a great team, and sharing experiences. Applying these principles resulted in improved flow efficiency, reduced lead times, increased throughput, lower discard rates, and an overall successful migration.
Is customized training in your learning budget for
2015? Before you laugh, check out HRDQ’s Reproducible
Training Library (p. 4). A collection of 75 instructor-led
and e-learning programs, it’s a very affordable, soft-skills
courseware solution that will put tailor-made training
within your reach.
HR World - Nikola Jovanović - Kolumna 6 - Do you have what it takes to keep y...Nikola Jovanovic
The document discusses how the talent market has become more active during the pandemic, as remote work has allowed employees more flexibility and access to opportunities globally. While employee retention rates may appear stable currently, talents that companies most want to retain are being pursued aggressively by other organizations. It warns that waiting for talents to announce an offer is too late, and advises companies to proactively adapt their talent strategies, check in with employees to understand changing needs, and involve top talents in helping shape the future direction of the organization through experimentation and development opportunities. Doing so can help engage talents and make the company an attractive employer during uncertain times.
Strategic planning for agile leaders - AgileAus 2019 WorkshopMia Horrigan
Learn the mindset you need to support an Agile change across organisational structure, processes, culture and teams.
Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organisation be successful, yet their role in an Agile environment can be quite different from what they are used to.
In this workshop, you’ll learn about the Agile mindset and what it means as a leader to create the right conditions for Agile to thrive. We’ll focus on the pragmatic aspects of Agile leadership, the role of leadership in Agile transformation, and how to support cultural changes, as well as the structures and operating models to align teams, programs and portfolios and help them work in harmony.
During this workshop you’ll learn:
About the Agile mindset and why it’s important for leaders
How mindset, culture, and values influence your ability to be Agile
How to create a high-performance culture
Practical skills for helping you set up and support Agile teams, programs and portfolios
Pragmatic techniques for scaling an Agile mindset
Unlocking the metrics for measuring your organisational agility.
This workshop is suitable for:
Managers embarking on an Agile transformation
Line managers, Product Owners and Business Owners who want to get the most out of their Agile journey
Portfolio, Program and Product Managers who want to get the most out of Agile ways of working.
The Innovation Bootcamp is a condense program, in which ideas are upgraded to valuable business cases with high alignment with the core strategy of the company.
This document summarizes an innovation bootcamp hosted by Corporate Acceleration to help companies bring ideas to market. The bootcamp condensed the innovation process into a single intensive day. Teams worked to explore, refine, and validate their ideas through pitching and feedback. By the end of the day, teams advanced the most promising concepts and 5 ideas were selected for further development. The bootcamp aligned innovation with company strategy, validated ideas, and accelerated time to market through its lean startup approach of rapid prototyping and testing assumptions.
Ritech Solutions - Innovation Furnace Client Paper Oliver Wells
Our purpose is to drive growth for our Clients through
team-enabled, product innovation in the digital domain.
A key part of this strategy is to capture breakthrough
thinking that fills an innovation pipeline with new digital
product concepts which can be launched in 3 - 18 months.
We call it the Innovation Furnace®
All too often, hastily planned brainstorming sessions bring up a lot of good ideas that somehow never get used, while the boring kinds of ideas you are trying to get away from seem to be used again and again. One reason for this is the lack of an innovation plan, according to Jeffrey Baumgartner.
Product Owner in Agile/Scrum is the single person responsible for maximizing the return on investment (ROI) of the development effort
Responsible for product vision
Constantly re-prioritizes the Product Backlog, adjusting any long-term expectations such as release plans
Final arbiter of requirements questions
Decides whether to release
Decides whether to continue the development
Considers stakeholder interests
May contribute as a team member
Has a leadership role
Must be available to the Team at any time
This document summarizes an outline for a presentation on outcome-based product roadmaps. The presentation discusses how focusing on outcomes rather than outputs can help product teams achieve their goals. It recommends defining a product vision, goals, opportunities, and desired outcomes to guide strategy, discovery, and delivery. The presentation also provides tips for adapting legacy roadmaps to this outcome-focused approach and taking an outcome-driven mindset when planning roadmap releases.
You Can Hack That: How to Use Hackathons to Solve Your Toughest ChallengesBooz Allen Hamilton
“Hackathon” has become a trendy word in today’s business vernacular, and for good reason. The word “hackathon” comes from both “hack” and “marathon.” If you think of a “hack” as a creative solution and “marathon” as a continuous, often competitive event, you’re at the heart of what a hackathon is about. Hackathons enable creative problem solving through an innovative and often competitive structure that engages stakeholders to come up with unconventional solutions to pressing challenges. Hackathons can be used to develop new processes, products, ways of thinking, or ways of engaging stakeholders and partners, with benefits ranging from solving tough problems to broader cultural and organizational improvements.
This playbook was designed to make hackathons accessible to everyone. That means not only can all kinds of organizations benefit from hackathons, but that all kinds of employees inside those groups—executives, project managers, designers, or engineers—should participate and can benefit, too. Use this playbook as a reference and allow the best practices we outline to guide you in designing a hackathon structure that works for you and enables your organization to achieve its desired outcomes. Give yourself anywhere from six weeks to a few months to plan your hackathon, depending on the components, approach, number of participants, and desired outcomes.
Contact Director Brian MacCarthy at MacCarthy_Brian2@bah.com for more information about Booz Allen’s hackathon offering.
Ritech solutions: Innovation Furnace Overview Oliver Wells
Our purpose is to drive growth for our Clients through team-enabled, product innovation in the digital domain
We bring together a Triple-Team of Experts® in a powerful process called the Innovation Furnace® where we create complete digital strategies and product concepts that are ready for immediate development and testing
Our clients’ business needs are urgent, and we surge to deliver up to 1-year ’s work in 60-days or less
We guarantee results or money back
Bridging The Gap: Using Product Data to Close More DealsAngela Sun
Product usage data is key to conversion. In this presentation, Hull CEO, Romain Dardour, discusses how to access, manage, and utilize it for sales and marketing success.
This presentation was originally shared at Userpilot Product Drive virtual summit on June 1, 2020.
This document provides guidance on developing an effective product strategy in 10 steps. It begins with creating an ambitious product mission or vision. Next, it is important to understand customer needs and how they are evolving by conducting user research. You must also understand where your product fits within the broader value chain. Identifying how markets may change allows you to strategize for the future. Key performance indicators should then be developed based on product goals. Finally, initiatives are prioritized on the roadmap to work towards achieving the strategic goals. The overall process outlined aims to create a product strategy that delivers value to customers and meets business objectives.
This document discusses optimizing software transformation in enterprises using key performance indicators (KPIs). It notes that actual team goals often differ from stated goals, with unstated goals including avoiding job loss or maintaining power. It recommends establishing a portfolio of transformation goals balanced between short-term survival and long-term returns. Examples include virtualizing environments to reduce costs quickly while also enforcing code quality standards for longer-term benefits. The portfolio should ensure a steady flow of wins to gain recognition while also pursuing potentially huge returns from riskier changes.
The Ultimate Team Building Pack 2 contains tools to help teams work more effectively and improve performance. The Balanced Scorecard tool establishes key performance indicators to monitor progress against strategic goals. It provides a balanced approach to measuring organizational success financially and non-financially. Developing a scorecard creates shared understanding and links strategy to actions. The process of creating it can be as valuable as the scorecard itself.
The Art of Optimization - Prolifics Lifecycle Tools and Methodology Practiceghodgkinson
Your solutions need to be better than your competitors to achieve success.
Prolifics can help sharpen your ability to deliver software solutions with improved efficiency and effectiveness, thus improving your competitiveness, and ultimately achieving success in your market.
This document discusses team design approaches for agile transformations. It describes forming cross-functional stable teams that remain intact over multiple projects. These teams should be self-organizing and have all the skills needed to develop customer value from start to finish. The document also discusses big teams that support stable teams, component teams, communities of practice, and using an experimental approach to inform initiatives for improving enterprise capacity and throughput.
The document discusses how agencies can thrive in a post-AOR world where clients work with multiple specialized agencies rather than a single full-service agency. It recommends that agencies (1) focus on developing expertise in specific categories, (2) adopt agile project management practices like breaking work into small increments, (3) price work based on delivering value rather than hours worked, and (4) operate teams at less than full capacity to improve quality and delivery.
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IT company Integ partnered with Herrmann International to implement the Whole Brain model and strengthen communication among its 150 employees. Most employees scored high in the blue quadrant, pursuing logic. The program increased awareness of different thinking styles and eased cross-team communication difficulties. Integ launched initiatives like "Integ Gets Red" awards to encourage thinking outside preferred styles and focus on customers. The results were stronger employee engagement, teamwork and customer satisfaction.
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This document summarizes IBM's process of updating its leadership development program called Basic Blue for New Leaders (BBNL). IBM partnered with Herrmann International to develop a blended learning solution incorporating online and virtual classroom elements to reduce costs while maintaining quality. The new program includes an online simulation called Thinking Accelerator that uses participants' Herrmann Brain Dominance profiles. Pilots showed high satisfaction rates and superior knowledge gains compared to the previous classroom-only program. The partnership helped IBM globally scale its leadership training while focusing classroom time on real-world applications.
UGN, a manufacturer of automotive parts, implemented a Value Based Management initiative to improve margins and become more proactive. They used Whole Brain Thinking and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to transform the company. Teams with balanced left and right brain styles were assembled. Two years later, UGN saved over $10 million annually by applying the principles of Value Based Management and other initiatives using a Whole Brain approach. This allowed them to demonstrate clear return on investment.
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