Shared Calendar for upcoming relevant events

In response to a suggestion, I would like to share a calendar for upcoming MSc DI relevant and related events.

See Diginno - MSc Digital Innovation calendar in Google Calendar

IDEO - Creative Confidence

Reimagining the Shopping Cart (ideo.com)

In what is now recognised as a seminal inside account of IDEO's design process ABC's Nightline broadcast this documentary video circa 1999. )
Search to view online - inside ideo abc nightline shopping cart - (the full video is around 22' long or posted in 7' parts).

Some key quotes from the video have become canon...

"The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user"
"It's impossible that the boss is going to be the one who has had the insightful experience!"
"Trying stuff and asking forgiveness instead of asking permission"
"Fail often in order to succeed sooner"

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The Kelley brothers of IDEO have also published on their approach
Creative Confidence

"Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the “creative types... each and every one of us is creative."

http://www.creativeconfidence.com

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Some questions:

• What is focused chaos?
• Is this a sane way of working?
• Is management control necessary? If so why? What forms of control are present here? When is control present? Who controls the process?
• What problems do you foresee with this kind of organising?
• If watching this video for the third or fourth time - try to notice the features that didn't belong in typical 1990s workplaces? Features that may be mainstream in today's high-tech workplaces.
• If you wanted to introduce this style of working into your own organisation: how would you justify it? how would you try to implement it?

Are you interested in what product designers actually do in a shared project workspace? Have a look at this time-lapse video of a week in 2 minutes (link).

AI and the Future - a seminar by Margaret Boden

A date for your diaries, Tuesday 19th September, 2017 at 5pm

REGISTER HERE

The learning insights series

Learning Insights series: https://qsblc.ucd.ie/channels/#learning-insights

eLearning media server on https://qsblc.ucd.ie/

Browse the review material produced by UCD's School of Business eLearning team.

Must watch: need to know if you're in the business of starting a business

Must watch: need to know if you're in the business of starting a business

— Digital Innovation (@ucddi) August 23, 2017

Compare and contrast an argument and counter-argument

James Damore's "Google Memo" (link: Gizmodo article)

Megan Moltini and Adam Rogers's article titled "The Actual Science of James Damore's Google Memo" (link: Wired article)

And an article by Karen Wickre on Google's internal culture, not unlike a university environment, encouraging debate, discussion, testing ideas (link: Wired article)

Inside Fog Creek Software

An article on one company's view (Fog Creek Software) that open office work spaces are not necessarily a good thing for software engineering.
(link on The Medium).

And another article making the same point, reporting on negative attitudes revealed in a survey of open office environments (link on The Conversation).

Dublin Talent Night (Talent Summit) 2017 with Google and Bank of Ireland...

Co-organised by some of our MSc Digital Innovation students; Link to the facebook page.

Dublin Talent Night (Talent Summit) 2017 with Google and Bank of Ireland

TechBrew @ 7.00pm

Hosted by Ireland's Technology Ireland group http://www.technology-ireland.ie/

Wednesday 12th April
4 Dame Lane
7.00pm - 9.00pm

Theme

“What’s more important – Product or Sales?”

Speaker 1: Colm Healy, CEO, Corrata
Speaker 2: Siobhan Maughan, Founder, IntegratedThinking
Speaker 3: John Beckett, Co-Founder and CEO, ChannelSight

#techbrew Tweets

Pagerank - an explanation

How can football help us to understand the way PageRank works?
BBC iWonder program and the Open University provide a nice illustration of how Google's pagerank algorithm works. Marcus du Sautoy explains all.

Watch the video from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8yc2p3

May be of interest: Women Entrepreneurs - WE Can! Meetup

"An exciting evening of inspiring speakers, knowledgeable mentors and a really fascinating, diverse group of women (that’s you!) getting together to chat about becoming and being a female entrepreneur."

Women Entrepreneurs - WE Can! Meetup

https://allevents.in/dublin/1247797225261940

Term-paper Template

You must use the specified scientific conference template for the term-paper. Choose between either the LaTeX or Word template from the ECIS 2015 conference. Copies are available on Google Drive.

(Google Drive link)

Turn observations from a case into general questions for research

Turn your statements, recommendations and observations from the case into general questions for research, applied to organisations today.

How do contemporary organisations deal with the problems you've identified in the case?
What evidence can you find to solve, support and justify your (eventual) recommendations?
Are there examples of current practice in industry where the issue was resolved and if so how?

The IONA Case

The following example question statements were inspired by the IONA Case and illustrate the wide variety of potential avenues for investigation.

• What various practices are commonly used in teams today, now, in industry? 
• What is Scrum? Reported problems with Scrum? 
• What other lifecycle approaches are used in contemporary organisations (e.g. Lean, Kanban, Lean-Kanban, Water-scrum-Fall, Dev-Ops, FDD)? 
• What markets are dependent on software standards? 
• What software standards are integral to different markets? 
• What are best-of-breed approaches to knowledge management, best in class tools, and the reported limitations? 
• Find examples of design management approaches, team and management techniques that I can apply? 
• Is there evidence of using metrics in some way that results in positive culture change in organisations? 
• What are typical figures for leadership turnover in organisations, divisions, teams? 
• What are typical norms for contact between customer and supplier, interacting around requirements, around problems, around sales etc? 
• What are current norms for team size, activity-task specialism, organisational structure, communication-coordination strategies? 
• What is current practice for organising NPD (new product development) versus operational/maintenance projects? 
• Has the emergence of Dev-Ops changed the way products are managed/designed/developed? 
• Find examples of organisational structure employed in contemporary organisations? 
• What tools are used to capture the customer-supplier interface? What data is typically gathered, how, what is it used for etc? 
• Is consulting or professional services capability identifiable within the contemporary software firm? 
• What are industry norms around consulting/professional services in digital? 
• What are current norms for firms cost structure across ”pure R&D”, NPD, maintenance, and operations? 
• Are there typical turnover rates for software/IT professionals; in Ireland, India, Israel, Vietnam, USA...?

Using problem-based cases for self-directed learning

Two posts on the managingglobalsourcing blog that go into the detail to help you analyse and learn through case studies...

Reading a case study and not sure what to do?

The case based learning crib sheet!

Our 2016 student projects and homework

A collaborative site for our 2016 student projects and homework
http://mdd-2016.blogspot.ie/

Postgraduate Diploma in UX Design

An interesting post-graduate degree for UX and IX design is being offered by the Irish Software Association (ISA), the Software Skillnet and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT).

See http://www.isa-skillnet.com/postgraduate-diploma-in-ux-design/

The Product Designer Role

In this post Chris Jones from SVPG has put together a thoughtful essay on the product designer role and what it is that they do, their orientation, approaches, attitude and responsibilities. 

See The Product Designer Role (http://www.svpg.com/the-product-designer-role)

n.b. Marty Cagan's Silicon Valley Product Group promotes and develops a lot of really useful ideas about high-tech product management.