I’m on the road this week. At the moment, I’m in a Starbucks. Those of you who know my travel habits know that this is where you’ll usually find me at 7AM when I’m on the road. (Mmmmm…coffee. Must. Have. Coffee.)
Once the caffeine hit my nervous system and my brain commenced something approximating normal activity, I noticed that the “The Way I See It” quote on the back of my Venti cup was particularly relevant for those of us doing Agile development:
“If we really want to understand innovation and collaboration, we have to explore shared space. Consider Watson & Crick: How many experiments did they do to confirm DNA’s double helix? Zero. Not one. They built models based on other people’s data. These models were their shared space. Their collaboration in that shared space powered their Nobel prize-winning breakthrough. If you don’t have a shared space, you’re not collaborating.”
– Michael Schrage, MIT design researcher and author of Serious Play.
I’m now enjoying my Venti drip even more than usual…
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