Substantial innovation is the secret sauce of successful tech companies.
But leading the delivery of innovation is often a disheartening experience: deadline slippages, disappointing the board, changes in direction, frustrated engineers, and a lack of tangible progress that leaves prospective customers in the void. Does it have to be this way?
Tetromino planning, a novel approach to plan-and-deliver innovation, has shown that a different approach is possible. At Hadean, for example, in less than 18 months we built a technology stack from scratch that has beaten the world record of the number of concurrent users interacting in real-time.
Through the exercise of unorthodox planning, the software engineers can be guided to transform their intuitions into tangible outcomes that will be delivered – even in a context where the ‘knowns’ are initially very little.
