Category Archives: Working in teams

Shape Planting – The Dominio IV Labyrinth

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Skip Walter

On a dreary Seattle day, an intriguing invitation from Dominio IV showed up in my inbox to come plant a grape vine labyrinth near Mosier, OR at their Three Sleeps Vineyard. I checked my calendar and I had nothing planned for … Continue reading →

Posted in Spiritual, User Experience, Visual pattern Language, Wine, Working in teams | 6 Comments

FroggyCut – Girls Rule Technology

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Skip Walter

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Technovation Challenge competition for high school girls at Twitter Intergalactic Headquarters in San Francisco put on by Iridescent Learning and sponsored by Google, Twitter, Adobe, Microsoft and Intel.  My daughter, Elizabeth Shelly, … Continue reading →

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The Paradigm of Awesome and Silage

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Skip Walter

Michael Josefowicz (@toughLoveforx) had a great pointer to a series of videos on The Paradigm of AWESOME! from Trustus Pharmaceuticals. Cathy Davidson came across Michael as part of researching her book Now You See It. Cathy described Michael in her book: … Continue reading →

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Advice to a Non-Technical CEO of a Software Startup

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the challenges of an early stage software start-up is whether to have a non-technical CEO who has a good set of relationships with prospective customers, or to have a CEO who really understands the technology and the art … Continue reading →

Posted in Ask and Tell, Attenex, Content with Context, Design, Human Centered Design, Learning, organizing, Russ Ackoff, Software Development, User Experience, Working in teams | 13 Comments

Visuals Speak to Me – Quite Loudly as it Turns Out

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Skip Walter

I am a very visual person, although I have more of an ability to recall those things I’ve seen rather than being very good at creating visuals. This week my cup overfloweth with colleagues and students pointing me to some … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, Human Centered Design, Idealized Design, Learning, Nature, organizing, Visual pattern Language, Working in teams | 4 Comments

Is the university experience wasted on the young?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world.  After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with professors at UW Seattle … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Content with Context, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking, University, User Experience, Working in teams | 4 Comments

Teams versus the Professor/Student Learning Relationship

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Skip Walter

Once again, I was reminded of the power of a committed group of good thinkers to generate insights with problems that have been bugging me for a while. Six of us got together yesterday to gain a preliminary understanding of … Continue reading →

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First, Second and Third Raters

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every startup expertise blog or book starts with telling you how important talent is in hiring and shaping the team that is going to drive the startup.  The authors assert that you should always hire “A players.”  How do you … Continue reading →

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What process should we use?

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Skip Walter

“The future is not a choice among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in mind and will, created next in activity.  The future is not someplace we are going to, but … Continue reading →

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Competing Product Design Centers

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Skip Walter

Traditionally product planning is the realm of the software engineering team represented by a program manager or engineering manager and the marketing team represented by a product manager or product marketing manager.  Often, these activities became exercises in “list management” … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, Human Centered Design, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, User Experience, Working in teams | 2 Comments