Tampere goes agile_2013_Olli-Pekka Mäkirintala

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ALTONOVA PRESENTS:

MAKE A TIGER LEAP AND HAVE FUNOlli-Pekka Mäkirintala

[email protected]

www.altogame.com


We are...

Eija Mäkirintala CEO, Co-Founder

• PhD (Behavioral sciences), Developer of a top performance and well-being coaching model, Business Coach + Trainer, Expert in arts-derived methods in training, Ex-professional violist

Olli-Pekka Mäkirintala, Co-Founder

• >25 years experience in software

• Business development, Software and Agile professional, Business Coach + Trainer


Agile approach


The Source of Innovation: Lateral Thinking


The Power of Gamification– Where does it come from?

Questions/Challenges

Arts derived methods

ExternalizationNo Hierarchies/ CompleteAnonymity


Improve by an order of magnitude

MAKE BETTERDECISIONSINNOVATE TOGETHER

ENGAGEHAVE FUN

IMPROVE PROCESS

SAVE TIMESAVE MONEY


Why?

No Innovation

No Growth


NEW FROM THE FUTURE: LATERAL GALLERYAGILE AVENUE


ALTOGAME PRESENTS

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How does it work?

Define your question (goal)Lobby-chat

Play with team(4 – N players)

Summarize:Experiences and resultsReview the Game logBuy Art online

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The Product – key characteristics

• State of the art learning methods and improvisation theater techniques – a social learning platform with emerging storyline

• Multiplayer avatar-based virtual game

• Web based cloud application

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What Can I Do?

Innovate

Coach

Develop and share Vision

Meet and discuss

LearnNew way of collaboration


A Customer Example

• The Question: Business model innovation - How can we get new customers paying for our service

• Game – the first feedback: Very interesting interaction – ”could have more of this”)

• MD feedback: ”We got more new ideas in 45 mins. that we were able to innovate using traditional methods in an period more than 1 year.”

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What Can I Do?

Practise scenarios

Practise roles

Develop and share our Agile

Follow

LearnSee the whole


Example: Retrospective

Current• Focus on past

– What did go wrong?– Why?– What shall we improve?– Any impediments?

• Problem– Hard to remember exactly– Not so interesting to dig deep

old events– Boring– People don’t tell

• What is real value -> Value or Waste?

New• Focus on future

– Practise scenarios beforehand– Gamified experience– It is fun

• Mental exercise – we are prepared for new upcoming challenges

• Tacit knowledge becomes visible - All experiences and concerns can be discussed

• Fast • Real Value


What can you do with AltoGame?

Lateral Gallery • Play team / network vision

• Play values

• Play strategic options

• Play new innovative product / service

• Get answers to your own specific question

• Learn mentoring & coaching

Agile Avenue• Practise and develop your

team / network lean & agile ways of working

• Practise and learn different real-life situations and roles

• Use as tool e.g. in:– Improving sprints (Agile /

Scrum etc.)

– Benchmarking

• Practise upcoming challenges by utilizing tacit knowledge of your team

• Learn mentoring & coaching

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Eija MäkirintalaCEO, Co-Founder+358 45 [email protected]: eija.makirintala

Play Game - Learn Agile

Olli-Pekka MäkirintalaSenior Partner, Co-Founder+358 40 [email protected]: olli-pekka.makirintala

CONTACT - www.altogame.com

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