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Sorting Things Out: Design vs. Lean vs. System Thinking, with Tom Mellor

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Sorting Things Out: Design vs. Lean vs. System Thinking, with Tom Mellor

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Zoom - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81181829003?pwd=OEgwL3Y1bTV1cGFiRWx4dUN4Q0Zsdz09

After the event, recording and materials will be available at - https://www.keystepstosuccess.com/2021/08/less-talks-sorting-things-out-design-vs-lean-vs-system-thinking-with-tom-mellor/

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Synopsis:

What do design thinking, systems thinking and lean thinking have in common? They all require thinking!! We'll venture beyond the obvious and examine their similarities and differences, and perhaps most importantly, their symbiotic and synergistic relationship. It is possible to apply the thinking or only one of the areas, but that limits us to one dimensional thinking. In modern application, system, technical and non-technical product development, we are better off thinking three dimensionally. Some recent discussions I have observed suggest that these three "thinking hats" compete with each other, but that is a misconception. We'll examine how all three come together to create an environment that forms the foundation of being agile. When we finish, I hope you have an appreciation how the three areas can be combined to provide a solid basis for solving wicked problems.

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Bio:

Tom Mellor (https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/tmellor2) has been a Certified Scrum Trainer since 2008 and was mentored by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber. At Ken's invitation, Tom served on the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance from 2008 to 2010, including Chair of the Board from 2009 to 2010.

As an employee of a Fortune 50 US business, Tom introduced Scrum into the company in 2004 and helped incubate and grow agility there until leaving the company in 2013. During those 10 years, he was involved in over 50 product development efforts as a Scrum Master and Scrum Team Member, and had over 1,000 company employees attend his Certfied ScrumMaster workshops. He coached and helped many teams and people in being agile and using Scrum effectively at the company..

Tom has trained over 375 CSM / CSPO workshops over 10+ year as a Certified Scrum Trainer with over 5,500 people attending. Tom now enjoys helping people and companies discover agility and find joy in being agile and using Scrum effectively. He strives is to help people find joy in work and help organizations improve.

Tom lives in Bloomington, Illinois in the US with his wife Maryann, daughters Lindsey, Kristen, and Amanda, and dogs, Penny and Shelby. He enjoys teaching scuba diving, spoiling a good walk with golf, and reading really good books.

And Tom advises that people and organizations should strive to be agile, not do agile.

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