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Agile Software Project Management

Lateral Thinking

Registration#: FA14-MS-0005Name: Syed Iqtedar Ahmed TaqviSemester: Fall 2016

Submitted To: Sir Ansar Muhammad

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What does the word “Lateral” Means?

• Lateral –of, at, towards, or from the side or sides

– a side part of something, especially a shoot or branch growing out from the side of a stem.

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Lateral thinking

• “ Thinking that is Outside the Box! ”• in 1967 • by Edward de Bono

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Can You Solve this Puzzle?

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Dr. Edward de BonoM.D., Ph.D., (philosophy,

medicine & psychology), Rhodes scholar

World-renowned consultant to business, governments,

schools and industryAuthor of 70 books

in 47 languagesOriginator of Lateral Thinking,

Six Thinking Hats, and Direct Attention Thinking

Tools

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What is Lateral Thinking?

• Search for alternatives.

• Looks to get away from patterns

• Ignores logical direction and “…moves sideways by re-forming the patterns”

• Is “an attitude of mind.”

• Is low-probability thinking

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SO,LATERAL THINKING IS: VISION INSIGHT THINKING CREATIVITY INNOVATION IMAGINATION

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Relaxation of rigid control of vertical thinking.

Use of chance Search for different ways of

looking at things

Principle of

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VERTICAL THINKING LATERAL THINKINGselective generativemoves only if there is a direction in which to move

moves in order to generate a direction

analytical provocativesequential makes jumpsone has to be correct at every step

one does not have to be

one uses the negative in order to block off certain pathways

there is no negative

one concentrates and excludes what is irrelevant

one welcomes chance intrusions

(categories) classifications and labels are fixed

they are not fixed

follows the most likely paths explores the least likelya finite process probablistic one

Difference between lateral and vertical thinking

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LATERAL AND VERTICAL THINKING

alternatives alternatives

vertical

lateral

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VERTICAL THINKING IS SELECTIVE

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LATERAL THINKING IS GENERATIVE

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USE OF LATERAL THINKING

CREATING NEW IDEASPROBLEM SOLVINGPROCESSINGPERIODIC REASSESSMENTDEVELOPING FREASH THINKING

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Basic nature of lateral thinking

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TECHNIQUES USED

TRIMMINGSPLITTING COMBINING

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BASIC METHODS OF LATERAL THINKING

• BRIANSTORMING• CROSS STIPULATION• DEBATE• DISCUSSION• CONVERSATION• SHARING THE IDEAS• PRACTISE• EVALUATION

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Edward de Bono’s Creative Thinking Process

Results: New Ideas

Select & Define Focus

Capture & Workwith Output

Generate Ideas

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THE WORD PO

NO vs PO

• Logic could be said to be the management of NO.

• PO is language tool defining the rearrangement process which is the basis of lateral thinking.

The function of PO:• Creating new patterns• Challenging old patterns• Stated differently• Provocative and permissive• Liberating

PO IS BASICALY A ALTERNATIVE FINDING ,A NEW WAY

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SummaryLateral thinking:

“…is not a magic formula”

Is an attitude

Is a habit of mind

Aims for simplicity and effectiveness

Seeks escape from dominant order

Seeks simpler order and not disorder

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Thank You….