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You know how it is–you work and work to produce a great product, and you get people excited about it, and you and only later realize that you’ve kind of forgotten to explain somewhere on the website exactly how everything works.
Yeah. Sorry about that.
Consider this video, then, the first of many ways in which we [...]
It has been a week since Agile 2010 and this post feels long overdue. Yet, I’m finding that spending a week catching up on work, including a special project with Lowell Lindstrom to conduct an Agile 2010 conference retrospective using Innovation Games®, has given me a rare chance for a sharper perspective on the conference. [...]
Insights & Tools•
on July 31st, 2010•
One question we get a lot is “Do Innovation Games® work with Senior Executives”?
The answer is a resounding yes! A great example of this is the games I produced in Feb – June, 2010 that invited senior executives from a variety of organizations to explore key issues facing Chief Intellectual Property Officers (CIPOs). This was [...]
As we head into Agile 2010 I’m starting to have post-agile-apocalypic nightmares that are being fueled by the many Agilists who are seeking, promoting, and in some cases demanding, a successor to Agile.
And it is giving me nightmares. Nightmares about software and technology development organizations getting better, and better, and BETTER at improving their processes. [...]
Do your customers love you?
Do the love you enough to send you cookies when you release new bits?
Ours do.
Let’s face it. Creating software is hard work. And, when it is really new, it often isn’t “right” the first time. Instead, it gets better, and better, and better — if you work hard, and IF you [...]
Games, Insights & Tools•
on June 7th, 2010•
Visual thinking and visual interaction models are hot topics right now. People like Sunni Brown from Bright Spot, Dave Gray and James Macanufo from XPlane, Dan Roam of the Napkin series, and my friend and colleague Paul Germeraad from Intellectual Assets are creating and leveraging powerful visual metaphors to help businesses solve complex problems faster [...]
One of our long-timer customers is TechBA, which helps innovative companies bring their offerings to global markets. TechBA has been teaching Innovation Games® to Mexican entrepreneurs to help them develop the deep insights that are needed to better understand local markets around the world.
Jorge Zavala, Director General of the TechBA Silicon Valley office, told me [...]
Games, Insights & Tools•
on May 13th, 2010•
Over the past several years we’ve trained hundreds of people from around the world in how to use Innovation Games® to solve complex problems. Many of these people are incredibly skilled consultants from a wide variety of disciplines, including sales, market research, strategic management, user experience, Agile software development, and portfolio management. These consultants are [...]
Insights & Tools•
on April 9th, 2010•
The growing use of Agile development practices is shining a bright light on the concept of Technical Debt. We’ve got people helping us understand what debt is, how it can be categorized, and how development teams can go about fixing it. There are some semi-automated tools that can help teams identify debt. Perhaps, though, the [...]
Over at Enthiosys, we founded the world’s first – and still largest – pcamp. Now often referred to as ProductCamp, the movement has spawned dozens of “camps” and unconferences for Product Managers around the world. While it was a great honor to found the first ever unconference for Product Managers, it is far more important [...]
