Balanced Teams : How conflicting perspectives hatch creative solutions

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With the ever increasing complexity involved in today’s technology, designers and developers are having to become more and more specialized. The greatest potential for innovation lies at the intersection between disciplines. Traditional brainstorming, used for decades and based on rapid idea generation free from critique, no longer is well suited to tackle the big sticky questions when everyone in the room is approaching the problem from the same knowledge base. Balanced teams of representatives from multiple disciplines focused on collaboration and continuous delivery have a greater chance of solving problems than siloed specialists. This talk will dive into strategies both new and old drawn from a variety of domains that can be used to facilitate creative group thinking and drive innovation. These techniques are drawn from and inspired by companies large and small, the arts, design firms and case studies from my work at Carbon Five. They will show how conflicting views

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Balanced TeamsHow Conflicting Perspectives Hatch Creative Solutions

chemphill courtney@carbonfive.com

Courtney Hemphill

chemphill courtney@carbonfive.com

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Industrial Revolution

Digital Revolution

Efficiency at Scale

Knowledge at Scale

The Service Revolution

Internet of EverythingHomes, Cars, Cameras, Hospitals,Watches....

Apple

“Our method was to develop integrated products, and that meant our process had to be integrated and collaborative”

- Steve Jobs- Steve Jobs

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Networks

“Nobody creates a Broadway musical by themselves”- Brian Uzzi

•Varied skills (veterans)

•Expanded product team (newcomers)

•User testing (reach out to your small world)

Networks

Proximity

“The cross-pollination of ideas is really the valuable part of co-working”

- Jacob Sayles of Office Nomads

“...10 times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on

campus...”

Photo MIT / webmuseum.mit.edu

•Co-located Teams

•Visual Radiators

•Full Team Reflections

Proximity

Empathy

“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

- Steve Jobs

Shopcraft as Soulcraft

“Always try to hire people who yearn to be master craftspeople...”

- Jason Fried, 37 Signals

•Everyone’s a manager

•What if?

•Hypothesis Based Sprints

•Frequent Feedback Loops

Empathy

Practice

Project ManagementResearch Strategy Design Build SupportRelease

Discovery

Handoff

Design Engineering

Handoff

Waterfall

Handoff

Project ManagementResearch Strategy Design Build SupportRelease

Discovery Design Engineering

Handoff Handoff

Waterfall

Known ProblemKnown Solution

Large Team

Handoff

Project ManagementResearch Strategy Design Build SupportRelease

Discovery Design Engineering

Handoff Handoff

Agile XP

Project ManagementResearch Strategy Design Build SupportRelease

Discovery Design Engineering

Handoff Handoff

Agile XP

Known ProblemUnknown SolutionMid-sized Team

Product Team

Learn Build Measure

Lean Startup

Product Team

Learn Build Measure

Lean Startup

Unknown ProblemUnknown SolutionProduct Team (3)

Design

Development

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Product Owner} Product Team Skills

1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks

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Iteration 0

Discovery & Planning

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

Reflect & Define Specify Build Build & Prep Test

Techniques•Provisional Personas

•Experience Mapping

•Sprint Experiment Planning

•Bang vs Buck 2x2 Matrix

•BDD Story Writing

•Hybrid Prototyping

•Living Style Guides

•User Testing

Process Evolution

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chemphill courtney@carbonfive.com

Courtney Hemphill

Carbon Five