Teams & Closing
Session Overview
- Teams
- Ideation
- Team Spaces
- Closing Exercise
- Next Module
Team Best Practices
(For Innovation & Research)
- FLAT: there is no leader.
- Open: Every member has a voice.
- Collectively Owned: Ideas, products, results are owned by the team, not the individual
- Collectively Led: Every member contributes to decision making
- Data Driven: Decisions are made based on evidence, not to aquiesce to manager requests.
- Transparent: Communication (frequent), and products are open, collaborative, and accessible
Remember Learning about Learning?
- Safe space
- Low cost to making mistakes
- Can take risks
- Not-working is opportunity for learning & growth
- Iteration
- Rapid Iteration is encouraged
- Small iterative steps (Not leaps and bounds)
- Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping
- Feedback
- Immediate, near real-time feedback
- Feedback loops
- Positive and Negative Feedback, in a positive way
Team Growth
Your team will flourish if you collectively and consciously create that learning environment.
- Everyone has a role
- You will make mistakes, don’t beat yourself up.
- Humbly accept reminders and feedback
Ideation
AKA: Brainstorming
Suggested Reading: Isaac Asimov on How do people get New Ideas
Project Ideation
GOAL: Generate lots of Ideas (LOTS!)
DO NOT: Curate ideas, Cut ideas, or Denigrate Ideas.
Project Ideation
Lots of Ideas
- We are talking at least 100s
- Most will not be good (That is Okay)
- Iterate on Ideas
- Yes, and…
- Add constraints
- Capture your Ideas
Ideation is an individual and collective skill; it gets better with practice.
Ideation Exercise
Generate 10 project ideas. Capture Them.
Team Spaces
Begin creating your environment
Tools:
- GitLab Projects
- Slack Channels
- Zoom Rooms
- Scheduled Space
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