What does it really mean to be agile at a museum? Do you risk shipping half-baked products if you adopt the principles of the lean startup? Can you really say no to a security update mid-sprint?
Given the size and complexity of the V&A as an organisation, we have adopted some of the techniques from lean and agile, and discarded others.
Asking why and saying ‘I don’t know’ at opportune moments is very helpful in how you build products. Put simply, it’s good to think like a four year old sometimes.
These are my five favourite questions – inspired by my four year old nephew – that helped me define the new What’s On at the V&A website.
Why laughter and ridiculousness are so central in my theatre company Parrot in the Tank’s approach to making work about depression, as we unpack what writing a comedy about depression is really about.
Post written together with my colleagues Sam Bailey and Joe Connor, originally published in Exeunt Magazine.
A year ago, Black Dog Gold Fish by my theatre company got funded on Kickstarter. Now we got Arts Council funding to open the show again in London.
It's been even more brilliant to see that we're not alone in bringing depression to public attention. How can we all get involved to remove the stigma around it?
On a flight from London to San Francisco, I noticed that long-haul flight journeys are not designed for a social interaction, at any point. The stories lost!
So one time I got on the plane with an empty notebook with some instructions scribbled in it. I passed it around the plane and – to my surprise – this is what happened.
In November 2015 I finished working on a project. A month later, with a big fat Lonely Planet, backpack and very loose plans, I traveled to India solo for 3 weeks.
I scribbled these 50 thoughts and experiences – as a stream of consciousness – on the plane back home. I might regret doing this, but you only live once.
I’m the head of marketing at an email start-up. Like many, we send out newsletters to our community. Ours often features shoulder pads, badgers and Michael Bolton.
The point is, I hate ‘users’ and ‘sign-ups’. But I really, really like people. At Paperfold, we decided to build our community as people. Here’s how.
