When teaching requirements engineering, lean and agile development, and design thinking at university, it's always surprising to me how natural the latter approaches are to students. In the same manner, you do not have to teach creativity to little kids - they just are creative and act accordingly.
In this year's Design Thinking and Lean Development class at the University of Mannheim, for instance, it was really a pleasure to teach design thinking in a 3-hour workshop format. As opposed to many experienced developers, the students couldn't wait to transfer the few "theoretical inputs" into practice with their challenge "how to redesign the mobile experience for students on campus" (or "off campus" as alternative challenge).
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In this year's Design Thinking and Lean Development class at the University of Mannheim, for instance, it was really a pleasure to teach design thinking in a 3-hour workshop format. As opposed to many experienced developers, the students couldn't wait to transfer the few "theoretical inputs" into practice with their challenge "how to redesign the mobile experience for students on campus" (or "off campus" as alternative challenge).
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