Artful Making for Agile Teams
This session isn’t a conventional presentation at all: it’s an interactive workshop in which everyone participates.
We all know folks who seem to be naturally creative, outrageously productive, somehow able to do things we can’t do. We call them “talented,” “artistic,” “super intelligent,” or some other word that means they’ve got an inherent ability that we don’t have. Thing is, most of what we call talent is actually skill, and can be learned. Not only can it be learned (by you), but it can be practiced, and you can get better at it with practice.
This session is a very brief introduction to some of those skills, and the exercises that will help you get good at them, and then better. The exercises are derived from those used by the artists whose work is most like software development: actors. The skills to this session introduces include: warm up, release, concentration, work on the edge, collaboration, and innovation.
NB. None of these exercises requires you to perform in public or do anything seriously weird. If you can take your shoes off, you’ll be fine.
Stacia and Lee will present a brief overview of the logic behind learning acting skills to improve work in Agile. We’ll then take the group (as individuals, as a whole, and as small teams) through a sequence of exercises in which they’ll learn and practice warm up, release, concentration, work on the edge, collaboration, and innovation. A retrospective at the end will encourage everyone to relate the session to their own work at home.
If there’s room, we could do a 180 minute session. But perhaps 90 minutes is a better introduction.