“Better Together” Poster

What it is

The co:dify version of three teaching and reflection posters, which were developed by Markus Andrezak, Holger Rhinow, Anne Greuling, Abraham Taherivand, and Jan Schmiedgen for HPI Academy’s “From Design Thinking to Agile Development” course (a heavily recommended learning experience by the way). We created them to make learners aware of the similarities, differences and interrelations of Design Thinking, Lean Startup and agile software development with Scrum.

For Whom it is

The posters are primarily made for introducing people new to agile product development to the basic concepts of (double loop) learning in fast iterative cycles. They therefore can be used by trainers, workshop facilitators, innovation catalysts, (internal) consultants, and any other groups which have to reflect upon the latter in a didactic way.

How To use it

You can use them as a “progress bar” during your learning experience, to show where people are in the process. But they unfold their real benefits in the reflective parts of your training: here you can discuss the neuralgic points you experienced while progressing your work and you can also use them to visualize for example innovation barriers, inflection points, (new or altered) decision-making gates, etc. Holger Rhinow wrote a series of Medium articles on them too. This might also be a good starting point.

Best used with

Complement them with whatever is useful for you. We usually use stickies to add participants thoughts and critical moments (e.g. the Throwaway MVP moment) to the posters. But also method cards, innovation barrier cards, and any other dimension you might have to discuss can be added to them.