This workshop is about how to use a design thinking process an techniques to better understand organisation's culture and minimize resistance to change in the creation of an Agile culture. The strategy is to combine empathy for the context, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context. This solutions are aimed to create reasons for people in the organisation to embrace Agile. You'll also learn some useful design thinking techniques that you can use in your retrospectives!! Description: Design Thinking refers to the methods and processes to investigate complex problems in highly uncertain systems, acquiring information, analysing knowledge, and positing solutions. This workshop is about the usage of this process to better understand organisation's culture and minimise resistance to change in the creation of an Agile culture. The strategy is to combine empathy for the context, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyse and fit solutions to the context. This solutions are aimed to create reasons for people in the organisation to embrace Agile. This iterative process of observation, ideation and implementation can be integrated within your retrospectives and also applied outside IT to create a continuous improvement engine for organisational culture in organisations.

1. Expanding an Agile culture in
organizations with design thinking
Angel
Diaz-­‐Maroto
@adiazmaroto
www.agilar.org
@adiazmaroto

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HOLA!

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What’s Design
thinking?

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Design thinking can help
you designing experiences
for your customers.

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By developing your
empathy for the customer

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But this time is not
about your customer, but
about your co-workers.

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Let’s play!

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Form a team

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Define the problem

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Start the process

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Test, re-define the
problem and iterate

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Please share your work …

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… and give it a try in
your organization!!

23. Thanks!
Angel
Diaz-­‐Maroto
@adiazmaroto
www.agilar.org
@adiazmaroto