The 7 key decisions that shaped our methodology
Frontier Technology Livestreaming is a programme designed to help DFID advisors apply frontier technologies like 3D printing and the Internet of Things to the biggest challenges in development.
Over the course of three years FTL will support 15 projects (selected through 3 calls for entries) with: 1) money to pilot their ideas 2) matchmaking with private sector technology partners and 3) support to work in new, agile ways.
We are now a few months into our programme with our first cohort of projects selected just before the end of 2016. Most of this year’s effort has been spent on thinking through how best to support the projects to work in agile ways.
We’ve made seven key decisions on how to support, measure success and work with each of our projects. This post is the first in a series to lift the lid on the the method that we’ve been using, share some our thinking, artefacts and let you know what we plan on changing as we ramp up to our second call.
- Blend the best innovation methods and remain agnostic
- Work in Sprints
- Embed useful artefacts
- Treat monitoring, learning and disbursement as the skeleton key to making method work
- Don’t overwhelm with new language
- Don’t just manage, coach
- Eat our own dog food
Over the coming few days we’ll be sharing each of these decisions in an individual post so you can deep dive into the ones that interest you the most. We welcome any thoughts or feedback you might have.
