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Innovation, innovation, innovation. It's all you hear in meetings and all you read about in business books and magazines. The confusing aspect behind all of the innovation hype is that we rarely put thought behind how we design environments for which innovation can emerge. I've found that rarely does meaningful innovation occur when people are directly incentivized or tasked with doing so. The best you can do as a leader, is empower your people and design an environment where innovation can emerge. In this talk, David J Bland will present real world examples of how corporations are organizing, measuring and leading through disruptive innovations to create their next generation of passionate customers. You'll leave this session with actionable advice on how you, as a leader, can effectively design for innovation to emerge within your company. Learning Outcomes: Actionable tools for designing an innovation strategy (4 actions framework) A model for incremental funding (internal vc + horizon planning) Working agreements and measures for progress (lean startup + innovation accounting)

Innovation, innovation, innovation. It is all you hear in meetings and all you read in business books and magazines. The confusing aspect behind all of this hype is that we rarely put thought into how we design environments so that innovation can emerge. In this free 45 minute webinar, David J Bland a Principal Advisor at Neo San Francisco, will guide you through how corporations are funding, measuring and organizing for disruptive innovation. How should I fund innovation? The pros and cons of horizon planning and incremental funding. How do I measure innovation? Hint, it is not ROI. We'll cover the ins and outs of innovation accounting. How will the teams organize for innovation? What are the working agreements between the team and leadership? What ceremonies should we have? You'll leave this session with actionable advice on how you, as a leader, can effectively organize so that innovation will emerge within your corporation.

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Lean Startup is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile. While teams are embracing experimentation, it is important that your teams don't waste all of their time running experiments on unimportant and known aspects of your product. Assumptions Mapping is an exercise that gives you the power to facilitate a conversation with your team and enable them to focus on what matters. If you find yourself in an organization trying to adapt to conditions of extreme uncertainty, this workshop gives you actionable tools and advice that you can take back to your teams and apply right away.

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The document discusses test driven product development and the lean startup methodology. It emphasizes that requirements should be formulated as hypotheses that are tested through quantitative and qualitative metrics to measure empathy, stickiness, and growth. Product development should involve ruthlessly testing assumptions rather than efficiently delivering products no one uses, with the goal of building products that matter.

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Abstract: LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile. While teams are embracing experimentation, it is important that your teams don't waste all of their time running experiments on unimportant + known aspects of your product. Assumptions Mapping is a LeanUX exercise that gives you the power to facilitate a conversation with your team and enable them to focus on what matters. If you find yourself in an organization trying to adapt to conditions of extreme uncertainty, this workshop gives you actionable tools and advice that you can take back to your teams and apply right away. Learning Outcomes: How to use Assumptions Mapping to illustrate risk & focus your experimentation How LeanUX is bridging the gap between Design Thinking and Agile What leadership and facilitation styles you'll need for LeanUX to thrive in your organization

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What’s the most powerful practice in Agile? My candidate: a team-crafted, team-owned definition of done. Our research findings: product teams are most effective when they have a definition of done defined by the team itself collaboratively. Might the practice of crafting a definition of done – before writing a single line of code – be the most powerful practice in Agile? Or does having a definition of done matter? What is the correlation between Definitions of Done and high performance teams? Thousands of people on product teams all over the world respond to our survey for the Study of Product Team Performance. We asked them. Here's what the data shows. Presented November 2018 to the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community, and January 2017 to the Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership. Speaker: Ron Lichty In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the annual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html). The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last five years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles. As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com Managing the Unmanageable was recently released as video training - LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams - both from Pearson and on O’Reilly’s Safari Network (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html).

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This presentation discusses design thinking as a tool to help new businesses succeed. It notes that about 300 million people are trying to start 150 million new businesses each year, but about 120,000 businesses fail each day. Design thinking is proposed as a way to help more businesses survive because it is simple, creative, different, and appealing. The presentation describes different creative problem solving profiles and encourages finding these profiles within one's team and combining them. It promotes techniques like diverging and converging ideas, using post-its to capture ideas, and reviewing ideas with the team. The goal is to make the process team-oriented and fun in order to help more dreams succeed.

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This document provides 5 science-backed strategies that engineers can use to boost their creativity: 1) Try brainwriting where individuals write down ideas separately rather than traditional brainstorming, 2) Take a walk to stimulate innovative thinking, 3) Laugh and be in a brighter mood to improve creative problem solving, 4) Doodle to generate tangible ideas, and 5) Dim the lights to promote feelings of freedom and exploratory thinking. The strategies are supported by research showing their benefits for creativity.

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The document discusses the importance of customer development for software developers. It provides several quotes emphasizing understanding customer needs and problems rather than just building products. It also discusses techniques like test-driven product development, customer interviews, and running experiments to continuously learn what customers want and whether solutions fit their needs. The overall message is that developers should focus on learning from and engaging with customers throughout the product development process.

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This document provides an introduction to lean startup principles and metrics. It discusses lean startup frameworks from Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and others. It outlines metrics for testing empathy, stickiness, and growth, including acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue. These metrics can be used to form hypotheses and test products through experiments to learn what features customers value.

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So often in digital projects, we push content to the bottom of the pile, or the end of the timeline. As we evolve our strategies, we’re learning that content really needs to come first. Ahava will show you how to avoid this problem and plan your content for success. Using case studies from a major university, a children’s hospital and a major publishing company, you will learn how to set up your digital projects, so that content is a major consideration and doesn’t destroy your project at the last minute.

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The document discusses practices for leadership at every level and aligned autonomy in organizations. It promotes enabling acts of leadership from all employees. Several "safety nets" and "vision balloons" are described to encourage psychological safety and shared vision. These include practices like "andon cords", "competence building", and "role clarity". When combined with competence and clarity, they can provide aligned autonomy. The document advocates for leader-leader models and hypothesis-driven leadership to unite people towards shared goals.

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This document provides a summary of sessions and events that took place at the Digiday Career Fair. It describes that there were 17 employers with tables to meet job seekers, 11 speakers gave presentations on various career-related topics, and 592 job applications were submitted. It also lists some of the session titles presented on topics like personal branding, networking, turning liberal arts degrees into tech jobs, resume writing, and interviewing skills. The summary conveys the key purpose and activities of the career fair event.

Longhorn PHP 2019: "Beer, bylines & booleans"

More and more people are entering the tech sector without tech-specific work experience, and/or with non-technical degrees (if they went to college at all). While many tech giants still require or heavily favor candidates with a computer science background for technical roles, other companies are recognizing the value of staff with diverse experiences and educational history. As a journalist-bartender-turned-developer, I’m constantly finding ways that my “useless” liberal arts background and years spent slinging pints of beer have, in fact, prepared me for a successful career in tech. For those in tech with non-tech backgrounds, as well as the folks who do the hiring at tech companies, we’ll discuss the myriad – and often hidden – skills that non-CS grads can bring to the table, and how they’re broadly applicable to tech-focused jobs.

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