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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

In my last article on  Incubating Innovation , we explored the culture and mindset of accountable experimentation. Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments.

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Design Thinking, Innovation Workshop

Tony Adams

This week, I went to a fabulous 2-day workshop with the good folk at Monash University, during which we spoke about innovation practices in both commercial and non-commercial project environments. We used a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on human centered design thinking and process improvement as two lenses through which to look for innovation opportunities within organisations.

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Design Thinking, Innovation Workshop

Tony Adams

This week, I went to a fabulous 2-day workshop with the good folk at Monash University, during which we spoke about innovation practices in both commercial and non-commercial project environments. We used a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on human centered design thinking and process improvement as two lenses through which to look for innovation opportunities within organisations.

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Grow a culture of innovation and learning with frequent Developer Huddles

Scrum.org

And more importantly, where developers can learn, innovate and experiment to become better at his craft? In the workshop, the 30 participants shared and developed low-tech strategies to ignite Development Teams.

2020 151
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Risk Identification Techniques and How to Brainstorm Well

MPUG

While others, because of their need to innovate and step into the unknown, will have a far greater tolerance for risk. They learn how to manage risk by getting their team together and running a risk identification or risk kick-off workshop.

2023 59
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Exploring the Scrum Values Workshop

Scrum.org

That's how I started experimenting with a workshop, with different clients and in different countries, that I share here. Steps for facilitating a Scrum Values Workshop (1 hour): 1 - Facilitator - Set the context (5 minutes). 5 - Workshop Take Away (10 minutes). Take the time to wrap up the workshop by collecting people general impressions and let them interact. What I learned from past workshops. Some people may not feel safe in participating to the workshop.

2019 105
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Face to face ?? Online How did you change

Lynne Cazaly

As many face to face workshops and meetings shifted online over the past year, it’s curious to look back: What did you change? Many meetings and workshops that went online, only changed mode: sadly, they remained as disengaing and unproductive as ever! How did you first adapt meetings and workshops that moved online? agility better ways of working hybrid innovation new ways of working productivity

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Finding your way with the new

Lynne Cazaly

‘This was so much better than I thought it would be’, said a participant at a Better Ways of Working virtual workshop recently. agile better ways of working change culture experimentation innovation new ways of workingCopying someone else’s way of working might just work. And it might not. While there are methods, techniques and new habits to start, sometimes the best thing to do is simply try them out. No strings attached. Try it on. How does it feel?

2021 40
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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Our workshops have been recognized nationally for their accomplishments and educational level of excellence. Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Find out how to be a catalyst for change (facilitating innovation) and NOT an antagonist (frustrating innovation).

2022 98
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Three Ways to Set Your Team Up for Excellence

International Institute for Learning

His signature keynote and workshop, The Leader’s Horizon, helps leaders achieve the extraordinary by elevating their focus and aligning their teams.

2023 97
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A clever tool to help you problem solve

Lynne Cazaly

It's one of the reasons I give groups and teams this creative and innovation thinking tool to make problems bigger. I slot this activity into workshops when teams are working on strategy, design thinking, customer journeys and other tricky problems. It's a process that let's you look at creativity, innovation and problem solving by making it bigger before you get your hands dirty by doing something about it. collaboration innovation problem solving template thinking

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Unlocking Agile Success: Aligning Your Organizational Design with Strategic Focus

Scrum.org

When it comes to strategic focus, there are three main types, each of which requires different capabilities and results in a unique Agile organizational design: Product-Centric: A product-centric organization focuses on innovation, new product development, and speedy time-to-market.

2023 155
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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

One of the most exciting outcomes of Scrum being adopted by a team is innovation. Broadly that is described as innovation. Innovation around the team's working practices.

2023 160
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?? Valerio Zanini & Zeina Zeitouni: The Zones of Value Framework

Scrum.org

During this workshop, Valerio Zanini and Zeina Zeitouni explored the Zones of Value Framework that Agile and Product teams can use to build better products. You will also learn about the 5 Dimensions of innovation, the core framework that drives any product innovation.

2022 109
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A Facilitator as an (Event) Value Maximiser 

Scrum.org

Throughout this blog, I use a variety of terms such as meeting, event, and workshop ostensibly as synonyms. It’s the combination of preparatory work, in-event guidance and post event wrap-up that goes far beyond being the person who sends the calendar invites and initiates a workshop.

2022 167
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Roles And Responsibilities Of A SAFe® Product Owner

Agilemania

They also participate in events such as the Iteration Retrospective and the Agile Release Train’s Inspect & Adapt workshop, providing feedback from the customer’s perspective. This workshop is held to remove any hindrance that comes during the smooth process.

2022 98
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Building An Inclusive Ecosystem

International Institute for Learning

James and Krista White are Keynote Presenters in this year’s Leadership & Innovation 2023 Online Conference! By James D. White and Krista White As we discussed in our previous post , the future of work requires anti-racist leadership.

2023 52
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Project Management Conferences and Events 2022

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are a series of summits held in different North American cities and each of the conferences includes hands-on workshops, educational sessions and the ability to earn PDUs and CDUs. This year’s theme is New Ways of Working and speakers will be covering latest innovations.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

What to Expect: Industry innovators help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed with over 25 educational sessions and four hands-on workshops.

2022 285
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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You are likely to notice more creativity and innovation, the mood in the room is uplifting. I will be running some workshops and doing some coaching. In 2020 I also plan to offer a workshop in mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) for project managers.

2022 344
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Future Trends in Project Management: The Debate

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There will still be the need for innovation. Lela: PMI is trying to minimise the gap between ‘PM by the badge’ and project managers because there is more emphasis put on practical skills and practitioners contributing to creating workshops.

2021 439
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?? Daniel Stillman: Designing Powerful Questions to help you Coach, Create, Connect and Lead

Scrum.org

In this interactive workshop, we co-created, clarified and amplified our most powerful questions to help us build teams, lead when we’re not in charge and transform organizations. TL; DR: Designing Powerful Questions with Daniel Stillman.

2021 167
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2021 Online & On-Site Events for Project Managers

Epicflow Blog

January 31 — Beyond Agile Israel 2021 with this year’s topic “Agile Innovations” invites everyone who’s curious about Agile methodology to take part in the event. During the third conference day, the participants will take part in workshops.

2021 98
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Why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. You can’t bully your way into innovation. The requisite level of innovation is incredibly complex. Innovation inherently brings risk and uncertainty.

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A story of why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. You can’t bully your way into innovation. The requisite level of innovation is incredibly complex. Innovation inherently brings risk and uncertainty.

2022 151
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Top Project Management Conferences of 2019

ProjectManager.com

There are industry experts and education sessions, workshops and keynotes. The one-day event has a program of influential speakers who will discuss how project management can better deliver value with innovative methods, tools and techniques. The PMO Symposium gives participants access to executive-level networking, workshops and discussions. New year, new opportunities to advance your project management career.

2019 316
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2022 Online and In-Person Events for Project/Resource Managers and Industry Professionals

Epicflow Blog

April 6 — The Hottest Innovations in Talent Management aims to provide those engaged in talent management with recent innovations on the following topics: compensation and incentives, technologies and compliance, managing performance of an organization, department or employees, and more. .

2021 98
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Teambuilding and Idea Development with Lego Serious Play

Inloox

The idea of Lego Serious Play (LSP) The LSP method promotes both innovation and business performance. Lego Serious Play Workshop In a LSP-Workshop the participants work on and solve a problem together. A certified LSP moderator (facilitator) supports the participants and helps to find a solution at the end of the workshop. In preparation to a LSP-Workshop you first select a LSP moderator. Now the actual workshop can begin.

2018 146
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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Change Management Workshop. $79.

2022 431
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Inspection and the Product Backlog - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (17)

Scrum.org

Or are these really innovations that the users have never thought about.? If you want to take a deeper dive into the core concepts we are covering in this blog series, then surely check out our Professional Scrum Mastery workshop.

2021 182
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The Agile Workspace: The Undervalued Success Factor

Scrum.org

To become agile – and reap its benefits such as becoming more innovative –, you need a diversity of workspaces to support all forms of creative work: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. WORKPLACE SURVEY 2016” uncovers “a statistical link between the quality and functional make-up of the workplace, and the level of innovation employees ascribe to their companies“. . Rule of thumb: one meter per workshop participant.) .

2019 130
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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2): Internal Stakeholders & Product Roadmaps

Scrum.org

Arrange workshops with stakeholders and ambassadors, and ask your Scrum Master and the Developers to join the effort. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport.

2021 214
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Top Project Management Conferences in 2020

Epicflow Blog

Here, you’ll have an opportunity to listen to world speakers on the topic, get insights from local community experts in the field and participate in practical workshops. Besides, Smart Scrum Product Ownership workshop will be also held by Jeff Patton and Jeff Gothelf.

2020 81
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2019 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want to Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The theme is Innovation Made Possible by a Project Manager. There is a good mix of presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching. Network and meet with your peers, attend the keynote and morning sessions, and in the afternoon attend workshop sessions. This four day conference will bring together PMO leaders for advanced workshops and networking. Project management conferences are a fantastic way to meet new people and improve your skills.

2019 347
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When you’re stuck for ideas

Lynne Cazaly

We often need ideas for: - projects - business or branding - writing and blogging - product naming - workshops and meeting activities - presentations and pitches - problem solving. collaboration creative creativity ideas ideation innovation thinkingIt’s tough running on the idea wheel, waiting, searching for ideas.

2020 40
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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

International Institute for Learning

Your ability to mentalize is already under enormous pressure if you come running in from a rushed morning of delivering a crying child in kindergarten, knowing you have a full inbox waiting for you, and then have to spend three hours in a workshop. By Mario Ebro.

2023 52
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Mind Mapping: 5 Hands-on Tips for the Popular Visualization Technique

Inloox

Using this technique during a workshop or meeting, for example, can replace the classic bullet points in your notes, making it a more creative and accessible way to capture what you've learned. Employee-Led Innovation (2): Innovation Labs and Open Innovation.

2021 158
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Transforming an Organization through High-Performing Teams

International Institute for Learning

I have been working at Ericsson for the last 26 years, a company that started up in a workshop in Stockholm in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and his wife Hilda. In a high-performing team, we set each other up to succeed , use humor and innovation to find solutions. By Marianne Rimbark.

2022 52
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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2): Internal Stakeholder & Product Roadmaps

Scrum.org

Arrange workshops with stakeholders and ambassadors, and ask your Scrum Master and the Developers to join the effort. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport.

2021 170
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Top Project Management Conferences in 2020

Epicflow Blog

Here, you’ll have an opportunity to listen to world speakers on the topic, get insights from local community experts in the field and participate in practical workshops. Besides, Smart Scrum Product Ownership workshop will be also held by Jeff Patton and Jeff Gothelf.

2020 64