Design thinking and agile methodology

Sheba Mugambi Canberra, Act, Australia

I just listened to the webinar on Design Thinking and i got a bit confused.

What is the difference between the design thinking and the agile methodology?

Posted: Feb 12, 2019 11:53 PM

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Peter Ambrosy Weinheim, Germany

Design thinking is a practise within an agile framework used for an adaptive project approach.

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 12:45 AM

Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Design thinking is a technique used during your agile process. Design thinking can obviously be used no matter what approach you follow so it is not Agile specific. Like Agile it is not new and something we've been doing forever, or should be doing. Fancy words like Empathize and Ideate basically just replaced concepts like walking in your stakeholders' shoes and collaborate/share to come up with possible solutions.

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 1:25 AM

Guy Munte PM Specialist| Made4net Ramat Gan, Israel

In a nutshell - Design Thinking is focused on exploring ways to understand and solve problems. Agile is different altogether, it is focused on how to manage projects in way that enables you to adapt to changing conditions. Design Thinking is about solving a problem, Agile is about providing the solution.

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 3:11 AM

RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Agree with Anton

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 3:13 AM

Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sheba, both are totally different things. First of all let me say Agile something does not exists as a concept. Agile is a way of thinking and behave that you can apply with any method/process to create something. Agile was formally born in 1990 as an alternative of Lean and the most well known application is on software field. Design Thinking was created in 1960 and people like me that worked in system/software industry used it from long time ago. When you have a problem, any type of problem including your personal life, you usually design a solution. Design Thinking is a set of steps (a method) that could help to design the solution. So, if you follow the Design Thinking method you can apply Agile behavior in the method itself.

Posted: Feb 13, 2019 4:27 AM

Sheba Mugambi Canberra, Act, Australia

Thanks all for the valuable feedback, it simplifies the concept and clarified it much more. I guess we use it i day to day, but just not labeling it as design thinking.

Again many thanks for sharing

Posted: Feb 18, 2019 1:07 AM

Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia

Agreed

Posted: Feb 18, 2019 1:23 AM

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