Roman Humeniuk: Creative Thinking in working processes (UA) Ukraine Online PMDay 2022 Autumn Website - https://pmday.org/online Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/startuplviv FB - https://www.facebook.com/pmdayconference

1. Creative thinking
in work processes

2. few words about me
Experience - 7+ years in IT
Roles - QA Ops DevOps .NET Dev Scrum Master
Engineering Project manager
Roman Humeniuk

3. Speech - 40-60 minutes
Q&A - 10-30 minutes

4. What we’ll discuss today
knowledge &
Environment
Readiness &
Motivation
Creative thinking
skill
facilitation skill

5. - It is the ability
to approach a problem or challenge
from a new perspective, alternative
angle, or with an atypical mindseT
Creative thinking

6. 1. Your knowledge in the domain area
finding what works for you is what is
important, not the terminology or specific
framework
Combinatorial Evolution
windows vs Apple as an example

7. 2. Your environment
All aspects of our lives and interactions
with people and challenges can benefit
from creative thinking and vice versa
Everything around
forms you!
constructive conflict
George Bernard Dantzig example

8. 3. Your readiness &
motivation

9. Motivation types
Intrinsic motivation
People’s innate desires to do well and to have an
eagerness for self-control and self-direction in
accomplishing objectives
Extrinsic motivation
External rewards such as payments, bonuses
or promotions

10. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Environment
Behaviour
Capabilities / Skills
Beliefs / Values
Purpose
Identity
What do I have?
What do I do?
What do I choose?
What do I believe in?
Who am I?
Why I am alive?
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Love and belongingness needs
Esteem needs
Self-actualiza
tion
air, food, drink, shelter, clothing
police, schools, business and medical care
Friends, relationships
Prestige and accomplishment)
realization of a person's potential, self-fulfillment
Dilts pyramid

11. Person Energy level
rank potential
the amount of
energy from
nature
100%
0%
vitality
the amount of energy
we have now

12. correlation between energy level & creativity
POSSIBILITY OF NON-FAST CHANGES
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY SWITCH
DIRECT COMMUNICATION
WORK ONLY BY STRICT & SIMPLE RULES
ABSTRACT THINKING
CHANGE AGENTS
AN ABILITY TO CREATE IDEAS
LEADERSHIP

13. influence of hormones
Cortisol
Adrenaline The “fear” chemicals
Serotonin
Oxytocin The “selfless” chemicals
Endorphine The “selfish” chemicals
Dopamine They help us get things done and achieve more
They strengthen our social bonds create
meaningful connection/collaboration
you may feel the fight‐or‐ flight response even after
you realize there really is no danger

14. physiology
- Healthy food
- sport
- a conscious break
- vitamins
psychology
- checklists
- checkpoints
- external help
- environment changes

15. 4. Creative thinking skill

16. Everyone is capable of creative thinking
What I’m thinking about?
The left hemisphere of our brain handles
tasks such as reading, writing, speaking,
arithmetic reasoning and understanding.
Another characteristics of our left
hemisphere is that it tends to process
information sequentially, one at a time.
How I’m thinking
the right hemisphere of our brain excels
in visual perception, understanding
spatial relationships, recognizing
patterns, music, emotional expressions,
etc. It is also good at making
inferences.

17. Walt Disney Method
The
dreamer
The realist
The critic
When you are a "Dreamer"
you are creative, passionate,
think of the big picture,
letting your imagination
run, lay it all out and allow
yourself to think big
When you are a
"Realist" you are
thinking more
logically, narrow
ideas to a short list,
take the best idea,
create an action
plan to apply idea
into reality
When you are a "Critic" you are
thinking more critically, what
obstacles will you face, what things
could go wrong having heard the
action plan and what the dreamer
wants, break it down.

18. 6 hats method
The white hat helps us to think in the most objective
and neutral way possible. With this thought, we need
to focus on the available data, look at the
information we have and learn from it
The black hat is used to be critical in a negative way,
thinking why something cannot go well. With it we
will activate the thought of judgment and caution,
revealing the negative aspects of the addressed issue
the blue hat is the one controlling all other hats. It
regulates the timing and the order of the different
topics. With this one, we discuss the thinking process
and summarize what has been said. In the end, the
conclusions are written
With the red hat, we can express our feelings,
intuition, and emotions, without the need for
justification
The green hat opens up creative possibilities and is
deeply linked to lateral or divergent thinking
With the yellow hat, unlike the black hat, we try to
look at the positive aspects of a specific issue; it will
help us see why something is going to work and why it
will offer benefits

19. free writing method
1. Clear your mind. Relax. Forget all of
the rules concerning grammar. This is
the most important part of the exercise.
2. Set a time limit for yourself 3. Set the goal of the free writing
4. After you’ve set a time limit, WRITE. Don’t
stop. If you spell words wrong, don’t go back
to edit. If the idea fades KEEP WRITING.
This is crucial to the exercise. Even if you have nothing on your
mind, write “I HAVE NOTHING ON MY MIND, I HAVE NOTHING ON MY
MIND, I HAVE NOTHING ON MY MIND.” You can keep writing this over
and over because it is okay. What you are doing is freeing your
mind, and eventually something will surface even if you have to do
multiple sessions of free writing.
5. When the time
limit is finished,
STOP. Read it and
underline all of the
ideas

20. 5 why method
Problem: Ran through a red light
Why? Late for work
Why? Woke up late
Why?
Alarm didn’t
work
Why?
Exhausted
battery
Why?
I forgot to
check
Root cause

21. what other techniques we should think about?
Brainstorming
context switching
habit changes
questioning

22. 5. Facilitation skill

23. It is the act of providing unobtrusive, objective guidance to a group in order to collaboratively progress towards a goal

24. https://www.liberatingstructures.com/
1-2-4-All
- Prepare a question to brainstorm
- Ask people to think about solutions alone
- Organize people in couples to discuss their solutions
- Organize people in 4 people groups to discuss and select top solutions
- Discuss solutions globally
- Make a voting for the best solutions
- Moderator presents results

25. https://www.liberatingstructures.com/
Open Space
- Forum - to split topic to the questions
- Questions to place on flipcharts
- Each member of the forum place his/her name near the relevant question
- Discussion of the questions in small forums
- Share results in the biG
- Two feet law*

26. https://www.liberatingstructures.com/
World Cafe
- Prepare Tables with A3
- A3 contains main topics
- Table should always owned my moderator
- People are filling A3 with bottom lines about the topic / questions
- Rotation of the people between tables based on the timeboxes
- Moderator presents results
- Two feet law*

27. Thank you!
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