Day 173. This phrase is so true! For a long time now… most of us had been conditioned with this ‘old’ phrase: ‘Great minds think
Category: Design Thinking
Down Memory Lane
Day 39. It’s refreshing to see a commercial re-mastered. This 1971 vintage is so refreshing! That jingle came about via the collaboration of creative people…
Pool Of Meaning Part V
Step two: Now that we have a ‘pool of meanings’ regarding the feature and the activities, we now have a collective understanding of the pool
Pool Of Meaning Part IV
Here is a cartoon — from Dilbert — on being a single variable track minded person. We don’t want a myopic view of the subject
Pool Of Meaning Part III
A Feature could span a series of steps — a workflow — to realized its value. We call these series of steps, ‘Activities’ … or
Pool Of Meaning Part II
Now that we have a set of Features that is needed to deliver the beneficial product, what we want to do next is to explore
Pool Of Meaning
Have you ever wondered how to break a thing apart… into its elements in order to understand it? For instance: you have a beneficial idea
Look At Both Sides…
‘… I’ve looked at life from both sides now…’ — Joni Mitchell Design Thinking looks at the matter on hand from multiple perspectives and sides
Design Thinking — Synthesis
In SAFe 5.0 terms …in Design Thinking specifically… Information flows from various collaborators in ‘Diverge’ state… synthesis is when ‘Converge’ state occurs: when synthesizers —
Fresh and Desirable
Want desirable — fresh — salad? Create it with friends! You want desirable product? Apply design thinking … don’t do it alone… collaborate… create it

Design Thinking
I really like, very much, SAFe 5.0… smack in the middle of the framework is Design Thinking! A much needed element that is added to