April 16, 2009: Innovation Games at Engineering Leadership SIG
When: April 16, 2009 @ 6:30PM (PST)
Where: SAP – Building D, Southern Cross Room, 3410 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.
Registration: 6:30 @ the door, more info
Cost: $15 at the door for non-SDForum members. No charge for SDForum members
Program Description–Begins promptly @ 7 PM
Innovation Games® are serious games for working with small groups of customers to create higher value products and services. They are a means of fueling innovation by understanding what your customers really want. They have been used by companies such as SAP, QUALCOMM, Emerson Climate Technologies, and Genesys to improve existing products and services and create new ones. In this talk, Luke Hohmann, author of Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, will show how Innovation Games can be used in New Product Development and ongoing product development processes to collaboratively identify, shape, and prioritize breakthrough products and services. This hands-on learning experience will feature both in-person and online games and a simple, yet highly effective, process for delivering innovative products and services. Bring your laptop and a playful attitude.
“Innovation Games give you many creative ways to gather keen insights and nuggets of understanding that can make all the difference in deciding which problems you choose to solve for your customers and how well you can achieve that ultimate goal of delivering superior products to the market.” Joan Waltman, Sr. VP, Qualcomm
“Innovation Games look like fun, because they are. But underneath, these are serious tools to collaborate with customers and co-innovate with partners. SAP has effectively used several of them to discover what our ecosystem thinks, what they want, and specifically how we can design our products to meet their needs.” Aaron Williams, VP, SAP
Event Video
Steve Mezak captured this event and broke it into 10-minute YouTube sections. The links to the 7 segments are below in order:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWzjfJq4S_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602hk54fPP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWkziJaLOP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejzs2NwBPzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afL6O1BKo9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znj9tC37Aj4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-I6yrEqqY
About the Speaker
Luke Hohmann is Founder and CEO of Enthiosys, an agile software product management strategy and consulting firm. The author of three books with really long titles, Luke is an internationally recognized expert on agile product management of software products. He loves his job, and is happiest when he’s helping his clients build great products and services. He’s especially enjoys watching clients get excited about creating new products and services as the result of playing Innovation Games® with their customers, integrating these into new product development practices, and creating them through architecturally sustainable Agile methods. A Board member of the Agile Alliance, Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior. He is also a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion. In his spare time, Luke likes roughhousing with his four kids and his wife’s cooking. He also enjoys long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wife’s cooking.
April 17th, 2009 at 17 Apr 2009
Luke Hohmann’s presentations are informative and engaging since they tend to involve a lot of interaction and participation from the audience. Instead of just viewing the usual Powerpoint deck, we learn by doing and develop a deeper understanding of the concepts being conveyed. Innovation Games rock! If you were intrigued by the session yesterday, I highly recommend taking Luke’s workshop since he covers all the games and we got to play them!