Tom Gilb and Kai Gilb's blog

Sorry about all these pictures, but I am very excited about this workshop ;-)



This is the setup for each team.
Prioritizing from Finance to Stakeholder Values
to Product with Product Values
to Sub-Products with Sub-Product Values
to Solutions.
to Evo Cycles.
Then build the Solutions with sw and Lego.
test with measurements
missions.
repeat.



Here you see glimpses of the Value Decision Tables, and Solution description.



Intense testing. Reality hits.





Getting better and better for every cycle (with a few occasional setbacks:-).



Every critical Product Value is quantified with Status and Goal levels.



Measure and improve.



As the teams made the Robots faster, reliability and precision challenges came.
Intensity followed by laughter. One Robot took of and hid behind the speaker.



at the toy store getting parts and discussing options.







Fantastic to see how the Value Management methods drive competition, the name Competitive Engineering really finds its place in this workshop. I have never held a 3 day workshop where the participants learned so much about Value Management (Evo/Competitive Engineering). Kudos to all the participants that stayed with it through the early frustration caused by being asked to do what they had not yet learned to do. I hope there will be many such courses to come. Congratulations with your certifications, they are well earned.