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Methodology



People


Contribute

  • Inspire others to contribute: value the impact of each contributor's unique capacity,
    unique personality, unique perspective, and unique talents
  • Share current skills and integrate new knowledge and skills: technical, leadership,
    interpersonal, and creative
  • Collaborate and connect; build and expand networks of people and resources
    Serve the community

Experience
  • Produce, produce, produce, produce (recognize value of repetition)
  • Thrive on creating change, and manage successfully when faced with ambiguity and chaos
  • Embody core values, develop skills, acquire knowledge, mobilize resources, increase
    stamina, and plan for flexibility

Navigate
  • To Develop self-efficacy
  • Build self-awareness
  • Expand external awareness and connections
  • Leverage momentum: build, reduce or maintain

Environment


Build Community


  • Be ridiculously passionate
  • Nurture and cross-pollinate ideas and relationships through the creative process
  • Instill pride in self and community, sparked by access to technology and propelled by ability to create using technology
  • Engage community by utilizing unique characteristics of Internet to connect people with the future, each other, distance places and new ideas

Create Space


  • Design and construct a safe space to support physical, mental, and emotional exploration and development
  • Stay on the cutting edge of technology, and fully resourced with newest technology tools
  • Inspire and stimulate elation, exploration, and innovation
  • Attract community and stakeholders within and beyond EPA

Cultivate Culture

  • Build rituals and practices to reflect and act upon core values
  • Delight and celebrate accomplishments
  • Develop a community of creative producers, productive creators, and "tech geeks"
  • Generate momentum and energy, leveraging technology's position as a symbol
    of progress for the community

Product

Instigate Demand

  • Identify individual, community or corporate need (Sun Microsystems Forever Young Website and epa.net)
  • Inspire participant interest (Puppet Show)
  • Stimulate volunteer or staff vision (Plugged In Mural)

Will Creation

  • Produce rather than consume (Greenhouse makes Claymation Movie)
  • Define product broadly: a song, robot, art, website, garden, play, business,
    movie, song, poem (Pacific Bell WebSite)
  • Start with trying to master the end-product, end with "mastering" the process for
    continuous product development & improvement (Resume)

Instill Standards

  • Create inspired look and feel
  • Design appropriate and sound functionality
  • Communicate relevant content with effective information structure
  • Provide a significant and positive experience

Process

Capture Opportunity

  • Scan environment
  • Cultivate need
  • Pioneer solution
  • Develop particular expertise

Manage Project

  • Assess and research opportunity to exceed client expectations
  • Assign roles and delegate tasks
  • Conceptualize and prototype; solicit and incorporate feedback; continue rapid
    prototyping development cycle
  • Prioritize and focus

Deliver Product

  • Produce, execute, and release product
  • Recommend maintenance plan and next steps
  • Close and transition work and relationship
  • Celebrate project success and express gratitude for opportunity

Ah-Ha Moments

Desire

  • Incubate an unquenchable thirst for learning and doing
  • Delight and announce group breakthroughs and individual epiphanies
  • Spark contagious appetite for increasing frequency of ah-ha moments

Stretch

  • Recognize growth is not a constant linear line, but a journey with leaps, valleys, and varying degrees and rates of progress
  • Balance "being present" with lessons learned from past experiences and future focus on goals and success criteria
  • Realize the ultimate ah-ha moment: You can change your environment

Reflect

  • Identify developmental milestones (similar to karate belts)
  • Have a sense of humility that you can always improve and learn new things
  • Recognize accomplishments and how far in the journey you have come