TechLauncher uses modern project practices to run and assess projects. This can be very different to the experiences that students have in traditional classes. The information in the Guidelines and Resources section provides insights into the way that TechLauncher runs.
TechLauncher Clinic
To help clients, teams, team members, and tutors, we have:
Reach out for a meeting online or in The HIVE. Clinic hours start from 8am to 4pm Mondays.
TechLauncher Notes
Prepared by TechLauncher facilitators and convener in 2022, the below is a compilation of succinct notes regarding the program.
Streamlining Project Activities
Estimation Tracking and Metrics
Complexity based Project Approach
Resources
- Professionalism
- Tips for demonstrating ‘value’ to your client, and other projects stakeholders
- Audit Guidelines
- Guidelines for conducting a team project audit
- Many Eyes Process
- How the Many Eyes Process works
- TechLauncher Portals
- How to log in and access the TechLauncher portal
Reading for Transdisciplinary Problem Solving
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, by Hadfield
- Knowledge Assets, by Boisot
- The Design of everyday things, by Norman
- The Lean Startup, by Ries
- Wardley Maps, by Wardley
- How Complex Systems Fail, by Cook
- Systems Concepts in Action, by Williams and Hummelbrunner
- Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead, by Shook
- Cynefin, by Snowden
- Radical Candor, by Scott
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Pirsig
- Change Your Dam Thinking, by McQuarrie
- The secrets of happy families, by Feller