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The Exquisite Chicken: play to create ideas
The Exquisite Chicken is a framework that encapsulates a wide variety of creativity-based games. Like the surrealist games of the early 1900’s, The Exquisite Chicken uses random juxtapositions of concepts to stimulate creativity. However, most of the old surrealist games used random juxtapositions to generate the final product—a poem, a picture, or a story. The Exquisite Chicken uses random juxtapositions to generate prompts, to which players craft responses. Furthermore, Exquisite Chicken games are more structured than their surrealist counterparts, and can be played competitively. But the ultimate focus is always on laughter and fun.
Via PlayGuru
The Art of Project Management, Scott Berkun
The Book: The Art of Project Management
In Scott Berkun’s the Art of Project Management (O’Reilly, 2005), you’ll learn from a former Microsoft team leader how to plan, manage and lead projects. This fun and entertaining account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the software industry can help you in your current work, and on future projects to come. Written for software developers and anyone leading teams or projects.
- How to make things happen
- How to make good decisions
- Specifications and requirements
- Where ideas come from
- How to manage ideas
- How not to annoy people
- Leadership and trust
- Midgame / endgame strategy
- The truth about making dates
- What to do when things go wrong
- Power and politics
- Team communication & relationships
- Visions and plans