We are making all of this up: improv lessons for the developer
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We Are All Making This Up: Improv Lessons For Developers
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Agency and Community Success Manager At Pantheon Since 2014
San Francisco Based Improv Actor And Producer Since Beginning of 2010
[email protected] @mcdwayne on Twitter Blog
Some things I enjoy, aside from tech and improv: ● Comic books● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne
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Poll time
Why Improv?
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Why Improv?
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Poll time
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Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known. Creativity is a state that allows us to touch the unknown and to bring it into the phenomenal world: To make the invisible visible.The unknown is a territory that holds all possibilities, until it is revealed. The act of revealing – that is creativity.– Viola Spolin
Why Improv?
Why Improv And Developers?
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Parallels between Developers and Improvisors
1) Crafts uses best practices and frameworks
2) End product enjoyable on multiple levels
3) Every effort is unique
4) Requires all sorts of cooperation and teamwork to produce the best results
5) LOVES TO PARTY!!!
Improv Principles
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Improv Principles
Yes! And…
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Improv Principles
Start with the obvious
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Improv Principles
Active Listening
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Improv Principles
Happy, Healthy and Well
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Improv Principles
Serve the piece, not the form
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Improv Principles
Make other players look good
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Improv Principles
Accepting Failure As Part Of The Process
EXERCISES
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Improv Exercise 1
I love
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Improv Exercise
Shared Memory
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Further Reading/Listening

This presentation as a blog: https://improvdev.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/why-improv-and-developers-an-introduction/
Improvisation for the Theater - Viola SpolinTruth in Comedy - Del Close and Charna HalpernImprov at the speed of life - TJ and DaveAffect Imagery Consciousness - Silvan S. Tomkins
Pantheon.io
Agency and Community Success Manager At Pantheon Since 2014
San Francisco Based Improv Actor And Producer Since Beginning of 2010
[email protected] @mcdwayne on Twitter Blog
Some things I enjoy, aside from tech and improv: ● Comic books● Karaoke!!!
Hi, I’m Dwayne
Thanks
