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Agile Software Project Management
Lateral Thinking
Registration#: FA14-MS-0005Name: Syed Iqtedar Ahmed TaqviSemester: Fall 2016
Submitted To: Sir Ansar Muhammad
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What does the word “Lateral” Means?
• Lateral –of, at, towards, or from the side or sides
– a side part of something, especially a shoot or branch growing out from the side of a stem.
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Lateral thinking
• “ Thinking that is Outside the Box! ”• in 1967 • by Edward de Bono
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Dr. Edward de BonoM.D., Ph.D., (philosophy,
medicine & psychology), Rhodes scholar
World-renowned consultant to business, governments,
schools and industryAuthor of 70 books
in 47 languagesOriginator of Lateral Thinking,
Six Thinking Hats, and Direct Attention Thinking
Tools
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What is Lateral Thinking?
• Search for alternatives.
• Looks to get away from patterns
• Ignores logical direction and “…moves sideways by re-forming the patterns”
• Is “an attitude of mind.”
• Is low-probability thinking
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Relaxation of rigid control of vertical thinking.
Use of chance Search for different ways of
looking at things
Principle of
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VERTICAL THINKING LATERAL THINKINGselective generativemoves only if there is a direction in which to move
moves in order to generate a direction
analytical provocativesequential makes jumpsone has to be correct at every step
one does not have to be
one uses the negative in order to block off certain pathways
there is no negative
one concentrates and excludes what is irrelevant
one welcomes chance intrusions
(categories) classifications and labels are fixed
they are not fixed
follows the most likely paths explores the least likelya finite process probablistic one
Difference between lateral and vertical thinking
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USE OF LATERAL THINKING
CREATING NEW IDEASPROBLEM SOLVINGPROCESSINGPERIODIC REASSESSMENTDEVELOPING FREASH THINKING
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BASIC METHODS OF LATERAL THINKING
• BRIANSTORMING• CROSS STIPULATION• DEBATE• DISCUSSION• CONVERSATION• SHARING THE IDEAS• PRACTISE• EVALUATION
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Edward de Bono’s Creative Thinking Process
Results: New Ideas
Select & Define Focus
Capture & Workwith Output
Generate Ideas
GET STARTED
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THE WORD PO
NO vs PO
• Logic could be said to be the management of NO.
• PO is language tool defining the rearrangement process which is the basis of lateral thinking.
The function of PO:• Creating new patterns• Challenging old patterns• Stated differently• Provocative and permissive• Liberating
PO IS BASICALY A ALTERNATIVE FINDING ,A NEW WAY
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SummaryLateral thinking:
“…is not a magic formula”
Is an attitude
Is a habit of mind
Aims for simplicity and effectiveness
Seeks escape from dominant order
Seeks simpler order and not disorder