Innovation for Transformation at Agile Vietnam Conference 2017

Yesterday I spoke at Agile Vietnam Conference 2017 giving an updated presentation on TRIZ.  I'd taken the feedback from my previous presentation on TRIZ at Global Scrum Gathering Singapore 2017 and produced something with a bit more focus.  Rather than spending so much time on Genrich Altshuller's story and on the 40 inventive principles I instead focused more on the various tools for inventive thinking.

The end result certainly held together better.  This time I could go into more depth with the tools for inventive thinking and start to apply them to software development scenarios rather than spending half the time introducing the background then spending the rest of the time dancing around the subject and expressing my amazement at the marvellous discoveries.

Then next step is probably to develop some workshops to apply the tools in a group setting.

Here are my slides:
 https://www.slideshare.net/DuncanCampbell5/innovation-for-transformation-agile-vietnam-conference-2017 

Some other highlights from the conference:

• Guillaume Duquesnay talked about Extreme Estimation - a key take-away was to remember that people are much better at comparing things than putting a number to something, which makes relative estimation faster and more accurate (or less inaccurate)
• Silvana Wasitova talked about High Performing Teams with reference to the McCarthys' 12 Core Protocols - I'm still not sure about the Check In with a statement of one's feelings...
• Kiro Harada gave his continually evolving Kaizen talk and introduced the Manifesto for Lazy Product Development; his mention of Muri (overload), Mura (uneven) and Muda (waste) struck a chord, particularly dealing with Muri before one can then deal with Mura and then Muda.