Accelerating the adoption of a user-centered and innovation-oriented process : Piloting the venture accelerator training program for development teams
Korpi, Sami (2020)
Korpi, Sami
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020061118325
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020061118325
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This study focuses on a Venture Acceleration program that is based on the Lean Startup method and its impact on a specific development team’s way of working. The scope of the program included training of corporate personnel to embrace a customer-centered and business-oriented mindset. The phenomenon related to this development study is the organization’s work culture transformation. The implementation of the focused training, in the form of an internal venture accelerator program, seeks to specifically speed up this transformation. The purpose of this thesis is to implement an action research approach to find out if development work can be accelerated by accepting certain tools and a process, together with a user-centered mindset. According to the synthesis of these findings, an improvement proposal was created to establish a better competence within the development team.
The results are based on observation and interviews with the project team and the development work stakeholders. The observation findings show that the project team was able to improve their way of working and successfully deliver the digital assembly instructions project accordingly. The interview findings state that the development team will require more concrete ways to embrace the user-centered approach in their daily work. The reflection of the analysis indicates that the accelerator program will present an opportunity to both individual teams and organizations to embrace a new way of working. This type of growth of personnel capabilities is likely to benefit organizational transformation. The results point out that the impact of this type of training program speeds up the development process. Compared to the project team in this study, it also produces more direct results than the development team's earlier working methods.
The results are based on observation and interviews with the project team and the development work stakeholders. The observation findings show that the project team was able to improve their way of working and successfully deliver the digital assembly instructions project accordingly. The interview findings state that the development team will require more concrete ways to embrace the user-centered approach in their daily work. The reflection of the analysis indicates that the accelerator program will present an opportunity to both individual teams and organizations to embrace a new way of working. This type of growth of personnel capabilities is likely to benefit organizational transformation. The results point out that the impact of this type of training program speeds up the development process. Compared to the project team in this study, it also produces more direct results than the development team's earlier working methods.