Tag Archives: organizational change

Personal Rapid Iterative Design: Reflection on SkyTrain Unconference

The idea of public rapid iterative design on myself is very tempting. It basically looks like this:

State what you think you’re about.
Do something that changes your mind.
State how this has changed what you think you’re about.
Do it again.

I watched one of my favorite people in the world do it over the course of a year, [...]

BarCamp Vancouver 2008 – Unconference Meta

For those of you who don’t know much about unconferences, this past weekend saw the 2008 edition of BarCamp Vancouver on Granville Island. I proposed a session called “BarCamps for Non-Techies” and, at 2pm, turned up to the stage to find a good group of around 20-25 people. We decided to drag the chairs onto [...]

BarCamp for Non-Techies, aka. The Discussion I Wished We’d Had

So yesterday was BarCamp Vancouver 2008. In typical BarCamp fashion, I proposed a session on the wiki called BarCamp for Non-Techies on the Monday about 5 days before BarCamp, and did not prepare anything whatsoever. Then, racing in on Saturday morning, I proposed it at the Scheduling Jam, and Boris slotted it in at the [...]