Enabling Open Innovation through Agile Development
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Add to calendarOpen Innovation is transforming how organizations manage their innovation processes. Open innovation fundamentally challenges how organizations innovate new product development ideas by extending the pool from which ideas are drawn. This model is concerned with combining internal and external ideas, as well as internal and external paths to market, to stimulate and advance the development of new products and technologies. Consequently Open Innovation has implications for how we view ‘the customer’ in agile projects. Agile and Lean create the right environment for Open Innovation to thrive.
The workshop is open to all XP2010 attendees and workshop attendees are invited to submit topics for discussion in advance if they desire. This can take the form of questions, position statements outlining experience with Open Innovation or innovation processes in general, problems encountered, or challenges currently faced.
There are 3 workshop organizers - Ken Power (Cisco Systems), Lorraine Morgan (University of Limerick) and Kieran Conboy (NUI, Galway). Details are in the attached PDF.
The workshop will commence with a 20-minute introduction to the workshop, including a discussion of the goals and objectives of the workshop (for both organizers and attendees), and the process for structuring the workshop.
This will be followed by a 20-minute presentation on the principles of open innovation, for those who may be unfamiliar with these concepts.
The next phase will involve an investigation of the attendees’ and organizers’ current experiences regarding open innovation in an agile environment. This investigation will examine practices already in place and the effectiveness of these practices in facilitating open innovation.
We will then conduct an Open Space session, where attendees can brainstorm around potential advantages and disadvantages of open innovation in an agile environment, with an initial set of defined topics if attendees fail to generate new ideas to explore.
The session will conclude with a 20-minute review of issues and a set of potential recommendations for extending and adapting agile practices to facilitate open innovation.
- Emerging areas in innovation
- Different types of innovation archetypes.
- Understand the challenges and barriers to identifying and incorporating ideas from external stakeholders in software development.
- Understand how agile practices can help the team identify and incorporate ideas from external stakeholders.
- Understand how agile teams can start to apply and benefit from Open Innovation principles
- Understand how Lean principles relate to Open Innovation.
- Develop a set of recommendations for extending and adapting agile practices to help the team identify and incorporate ideas from external stakeholders.
- Examples of Open Innovation in action in industry.
- Shared experiences from workshop participants.