Does Agile help Innovation ?

LEAN AGILE AND SYSTEMS

THINKING CONFERENCE (LAST)

2013

Melbourne

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• 2002 Started with XP

• Agile coach

• Blogger: http://aglileworld.blogspot.comhttp

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• Author, Advisor and Writerhttp://www.techwell.com/users/venkatesh-krishnamurthy)

p://agile.dzone.com/users/venky_nk

Venky Krishnamurthy

Where did this start ?

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What are the recent

innovations that you

remember and why

are they significant ?

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What is the source of

INNOVATION ?

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Goal Oriented

Accidental

Hobby/Curiosity

Necessity

Wealth and Money

Any combination

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Accidental9

Goal Oriented

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Curiosity/Hobby

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Necessity 12

Typical Innovation process

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Provide Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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Build Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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Build Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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Diversity in

Perspectives

Diverse interpretations

Diverse

heuristics

Diverse predictive

models

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Social Experts : Myopic

Thinking

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Build Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea and gather

feedback

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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Design Thinking

Video

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Build Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea and gather

feedback

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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Take risks, embrace failure

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98pc of innovation projects fail, how to be the 2pc that don’t.Darrell Mann: Chief Engineer Rolls Royce

Antonio Machado : Spanish Poet

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Alva Edison

What is their secret sauce for their

Innovation ?

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If it’s still Amazon’s philosophy to make bold bets, I would expect that

maybe some of them wouldn’t work out, but I am just not seeing that.

So, my question is where are the losers?”

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If you invent frequently and are willing to

fail, then you never get to that point where

you really need to bet the whole company.

AWS also started about six or seven years

ago.

And I can guarantee you that everything we

do will not work. And, I am never concerned

about that…. We are stubborn on vision.

Story: Who killed innovation at 3M ?

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Provide Creative

Environment

Hire Creative &Diverse

Skills

Generate Creative

Ideas

Build Prototype

s and Models

Get approval

from Managemen

t

Implement idea

Pivot, Fine Tune and

Scale

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