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Lean Start Ups & Innovation Games

Innovation Games

Short introduction to Innovation Games® and examples of their application in Lean and Lean StartUps: Reduce Waste, Value Stream Mapping, and Minimum Viable Product. »

Xing Agile User Group Rhein-Main Meeting: “Innovation Games”

Agile Games; Copyright: ebgconsulting.com

In August 2012 Michael gave a teaser evening in Innovation Games™ for the Xing Agile User Group Rhein-Main. This presentation was featured on the SlideShare homepage at 19. Aug. 2012 for 24h. »

Systemic Questions

Systemisches Fragen

Changes — may it be caused by individual life planning or job-related (aka organisational change management) — may induce for participants fear and defensive actions. Systemic questions are questions used in systemic therapy. Main purpose of systemic questioning is to relieve the coachee of her obsessions with own perspective and fixed habits. Thus, she shall engage herself with different points of views, with attitudes, or values. By this, she perceives the existence of reciprocites and complex relationships. This often opens up new and surprising insights beneficial for solutions. »

OSKAR Coaching Model

Oskar

The OSKAR Coaching Model is a solutions-focused coaching model invented by Paul Z Jackson. Managers and coaches find it easy and useful. The acronym OSKAR stands for

  • Outcome — establish a “platform” (the current problem/situation) for change from you start coaching,
  • Scaling — establish where the coachee is already in relation to the platform;
  • Know How — establish what positives have given the coachee that rating;
  • Affirm and Action — positive reinforcement of the keys strengths and attributes the coachee has revealed;
  • Review — review progress against actions (this takes place at the beginning of the next coaching session.)

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Solution oriented Coaching

Coaching

Solution-focused Coaching is a combination of time- and resource-oriented Solution Focused Brief Therapy. Team conflicts are viewed as potentials for developent, instead as problems. Solution-focused coaching does not spend time for deficiency-oriented analyses, no one is searched to be blamed, nobody is griefing and lamenting. Solution-focused coaching concentrates instead on present and future (Future Perfect), not on the past. Problems are upside-down solutions. Solution focused coaching creates space for the development and evolution of solutions. Solution-focused coaching is goal- and time-focused: for appriate solutions potentials have to be developed in certain time-frames. So that, solution-focused coaching is a capable methodological foundation for Agile Coaching. »

Stuart Brown: Why Playing is vital?

Playing Ice Bear

Why is playing so important? — Because this can make us smarter at any age! But play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. Play is essential to develope social skills and adult problem solving skills. We are designed by nature to flourish through play. In the following TedX video, Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the US National Institute for Play, illustrates why playing is essential. »

Innovation Games

Agile Games; Copyright: ebgconsulting.com

In Feb 2012 Michael became a Trained Innovation Games® Facilitator. Innovation Games are fun undiluted! Originated stemming from primary market research oriented games, Innovation Games are creativity and problem solution games. They are structured and moderated functional-crossed group excerices (up to 60 participants), i.e. developers, customers, designers, marketing guys, product managers. In Innovation Games customers play a set of directed games as a means of generating feedback about a product or service. Typically, innovation games are used for such things as portfolio management, requirements management and any number of tasks that require innovative thinking, brainstorming and collaboration. »

Solutions Focus — Future Perfect

Solution Focus

Solutions Focus is an essential part of solution-focused coaching. These coaching approach stems from solution-focused brief thearpy (SFBT). SFBT was developed by Steve de Shazer at the Centre for Solution-Directed Brief Therapy in USt. »

Agile Retrospectives

Retrospektive — der Blick zurück

Retrospectives are an important element in solution-focused coaching. They are also used in Agile Coaching as well. Retrospectives are a kind of nautical position reckoning: to identify the degree the goals (the Future Perfect of Solution Focus) are reached, to scale how far away they might be, to develop the next steps, or to recalibrate the target. Retrospectives are faciliated workshops with clear and distinctive goals. They follow a common action pattern. This prevents the participants to get entangled in a mess of issues and topics. »

Agile Coaching

Was ist Agile Coaching?

Whats all about Agiles Coaching? — Agile Coaching is a Buzzword of modern software development. However, it is reduced to Agiles Project Management and Agile Software Development quickly. Without doubt, it’s origin is in Agilen Software Development. But Agile Coaching is much more! Agile Coaching is time and resource-focused team building of work forces. It uses Agile Games and Innovation Games. It’s methodogical background are solution-focused coaching and solution-focused brief therapy As a solution-oriented instrument, Agile Coaching is very well suited for organisational change management and process improvement like CMMI/ISO 15504 or CobIT, and ITIL. »