Yesterday I spoke at Global Scrum Gathering Singapore 2017 giving a presentation on TRIZ. TRIZ originated in the USSR, but it is gradually gaining worldwide exposure so it is still relatively unknown.
Brainstorming is the intellectual equivalent of grabbing whatever is to hand, throwing it at a target and seeing what hits and sticks. Humans have evolved further than our dung-throwing simian cousins, and so too has our understanding of innovation.
Genrich Altshuller's Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadach (TRIZ), or the theory of inventive problem solving, consists of a catalogue of 40 inventive principles, a matrix for resolving contradictions and numerous mental and practical tools that can be successfully employed by anyone to solve any problem innovatively.
TRIZ emerged from a systematic study of patents, other innovations and how innovative people produce innovative solutions. Despite the inventive principles and contradictions leaning heavily towards the physical world, TRIZ is applicable to all domains including software, people and not just the invention of new physical products.
In this presentation I aimed to provide the audience with an introduction to a number of TRIZ tools that they would be able to apply immediately to any problem-solving scenario, not just when thinking of product backlog items or resolving impediments experienced by Scrum teams.\
At the end I had some positive feedback on the subject, and some suggestions for how to improve the talk for a future presentation.
Here are my slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/DuncanCampbell5/beyond-brainstorming-innovation-for-everyone-global-scrum-gathering-singapore-2017
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