Luke Hohmann
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Luke Hohmann is the Founder and CEO of The Innovation Games Company the leading provider of seriously fun games that produce seriously great market research results. The author of three books with long titles, Luke has a playfully diverse background of life experiences has uniquely prepared him to design and produce serious games. Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan.
In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior under such luminaries as Elliot Soloway, Karl Weick, and Dan Dennison. He is also a former United States National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion. In his spare time, Luke likes roughhousing with his four kids, his wifes cooking, and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wifes cooking. Lukes an old school Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Instead of building a company to flip, hes building a company to change the world. E.B. White is proud!
Track abstract - Product Owners - G3
Innovation Games: Software Powered Innovation Through Collaborative Play
For many organizations, Agile methods have been a proven answer to the vexing questions of developing better software. But now that many organizations have mastered Agility, they are once again turning to Innovation. In this talk, we’ll explore how collaborative play and serious games can help organizations improve their agile and innovation processes.
Track abstract - Software Development Leaders - G3
Bridging the Gap: Linking Strategic Roadmaps to Tactical Project Plans
One of the challenges facing project, program, and product managers is linking strategic, forward planning roadmaps with tactical project plans. This challenge looms ever larger as fast-moving Agile organizations stress traditional approaches to roadmapping and prioritization. In this talk, Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO of The Innovation Games® Company, will demonstrate two complimentary and practical techniques for aligning stakeholder requirements, marketing roadmaps and engineering constraints, while encouraging innovation. And Luke will lead the group through an innovative and powerful prioritization technique – to help you with the challenge of “too many” requirements. Thankfully, these techniques are more than just practical: They are fun games that you can play with internal and external stakeholders, using both in-person formats for co-located teams and in online formats for distributed teams.
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