April Milk Bar Meet Up (Methods for Innovation)

Methods of Innovation

This is Milk has been chatting away to some bright, forward thinking minds in the Scottish business scene. At our inaugural Milk Bar meet up we're delighted to bring you three talks from some of these great minds around the theme of Methods of Innovation.

First up: Jacqueline Barr, Lloyd's Banking Group, talks to us about bringing innovation to a large organisation through Scrum

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Jacqueline is a politics graduate from Strathclyde University, Jacqueline worked for Sky, Marks & Spencer, Compaq, all companies with a strong cultural identity.

For the last 13 years she's been a Project/Programme Manager in Lloyds Banking Group. and led many different types of change in this time. In 2014 and 2015 she won Programme Manager of the year for her division for taking the brave first steps into scrum. Now on our 3rd scrum, they have coached and encouraged many other areas to move in this direction too.

Jacqueline will talk to you about how scrum can help you deliver change in a more inclusive and cost effective way and also the importance of the out of scrum team in implementing what the scrum has built. She'll touch on how just by trying something new we can create energy, an environment of innovation and hunger to keep pushing forward with how we deliver change.

Next up: Ben Hutton, Xdesign talks to us about using Personas and User centred design to create Software that lives in your pocket

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Ben Hutton is a Director and Partner in mobile app and digital solutions company xDesign. Having formerly worked in advertising, politics and as an Associate Partner at Cello Group PLC he specialises in digital communications – helping organisations solve problems and exploit opportunities with Mobile applications. He is a handsome, clever man, who writes all his own bios.

He will talk to you about using personas and user centred design to create Software that lives in your pocket. Using Personas lets us do three things – create better products, win better business and create better clients – he'll talk briefly about how and why.

Last in the Line Up: Michael Hayes, RookieOven and Add Jam, talks to us about his trip Stateside as part of Cross Creative

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Michael brought together his background in computer science, product development and a passion for business to co-found Add Jam in 2014. Add Jam are an open, friendly and flexible team that are experts at turning ideas into products on iOS, Android and the Web. We create these products fully in house, from design through to the server side code and infrastructure.

In March of this year Michael was part of the Cross Creative Programme by TRC Media. He spent 5 days visiting some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Facebook, Dropbox, IDEO and Pixar. At The Milk Bar Michael will share his experience and pass on his learnings from Cross Creative.