Appendix C
Definitions
Comparing Agile Software, Agile Innovation, and Classical Innovation
| Agile Software Process | Agile Innovation | Classical Innovation |
| Pushed up from research and development | 360° innovation | Pushed down by chief executive officer |
| Measures work using points and Fibonacci series | Measures innovation using points and Fibonacci series | Is difficult to measure |
| Customer collaboration | Pervasive ethnography | Design ethnography |
| Reduces unproductive meeting time in exchange for behavior change and real-time work tracking | Provides a model for innovation behavior change throughout the organization | Does not request deep behavior change—for example, “Let's run a contest for the best idea.” |
| Use of dashboards to drive management of engineers | Use of dashboards to drive innovation, because we can now measure innovation | Use of dashboards difficult to implement |
| Working software over comprehensive documentation | Progressive business cases with rapid prototyping for customer testing and insight | Business cases with fast failure |
Tools and Techniques of Agile Innovation
| Agile Software Process | Agile Innovation | Classical Innovation |
| Stand-up meetings | Stand-up staff meetings | |
| Burn down charts | Innovation burn down charts | |
| Scrum | IdeaScrum—innovation feed, plus collaborative and social workflow | Ideation |
| Retrospectives | Innospectives | Intermittent learning |
| Planning ... |
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