AW12Session6/8/162:45PM

ImprovisationforAgileSkillDevelopment

Presentedby:

RobieWood

ImprovAgility

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Collaborative Emergence: The Foundation for Agility in the

Creative Economy

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

- Charles Darwin

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Lets Warm Up!!!

Zip - Zap - Zop

Silly - Relax - Be Human

Skills: Focus, Listening, Reaction, Thinking on Your Feet

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Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive SystemsCoral Reef Creative Economy

Navigating NY City Streets Software Development

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Coral Reef Ecosystem

Software Development Ecosystem

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Navigating NYC Streets

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Welcome to the Creative Economy!Technology

Knowledge

Globalization

Demographics

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Software Development Ecosystem

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Exercise????

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Engaging Exploring

Embracing Paradox Adapting

Agile Mindset and Behaviors - “Being Agile”

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Engaging

Exploring

Embracing Paradox Adapting

Agile Mindset and Behaviors - “Being Agile”

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What the Arts Can Contribute to Developing Agile Mindset & Behaviors

Artful Making replaces the industrial technique of replication and the political technique of compromise.

When artful makers collaborate, either on a play production or a business plan, they contribute to making something larger than the individual makers: an ensemble.

Make New & Unpredictable Ideas

Collaborators reconconceive a problem in light of

each others ideas

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Experiential Learning Using Improvisation

“Yes, And” is a way of thinking, speaking, and interacting with others that keeps you open-minded, allows you to act upon opportunities, helps you innovate, and allows you to fulfill your potential.

“Yes, And” is positive, moves things forward, opens minds, and explores possibilities. “Yes, But” is negative, stops all forward progress, shuts down the mind, and cuts off creativity.

Practicing Collaboration

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First Yes, And Exercise

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How to Self-Organize?

Manage Constraints

Develop a Team of Great Collaborators

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Constraints here?

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Overbearing Constraints Can Reduce Agility

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Managing Constraints Exercise

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Collaborative Emergence

This is NOT replication or compromise (subtracting), but rather creating something bigger, something new, something not anticipated.

Remember the Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems — In this case a Team of Great Collaborators

The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts!

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Lets Try Our Own “Yes, And” Exercise

Lets Plan a Great Retrospective!!

I need to design a new retrospective that really charges up my Team…

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Lets Try Our Own “Yes, And” Exercise

What Emergent Characteristics Did We Experience?

What Did We Learn?

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Why Agile?

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Predictable

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Known Unknown

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Requirements

Tech

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Prescriptive: Often Done by Machines/Robots

• Manufacturing • Construction

Waterfall

Complex: Changing Requirements and/or Technology

• Natural Ecosystem • Navigating NY City Streets • Creative Economy • Software Development

Agile

Prescriptive vs. Complex Adaptive System

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Complexity Economics

“Free Markets succeed not because they deliver Efficiency at Equilibrium but rather because they deliver Innovation at Disequilibrium.”

“Agility, rather than efficiency, seems to be the secret to Free Market success.”

Software Development is a Creative Process that is a Component of Another Complex System: The Creative Economy

For Businesses to Survive and Thrive in the Creative Economy they need to Change, Adapt and Evolve.