Design Thinking in Software and AI Projects

Robert Stackowiak works as an independent consultant, advisor, and author. He is a former data & artificial intelligence architect and technology business strategist at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago, and previously worked in similar roles at Oracle and IBM. He has conducted business discovery workshops, ideation workshops, and technology architecture sessions with many of North America’s leading-edge companies across a variety of industries and with government agencies. Bob has also spoken at numerous industry conferences internationally, served as a guest instructor at various universities, and is an author of several books. You can follow him on Twitter @rstackow and read his articles and posts on LinkedIn.Tracey Kelly is Envisioning Lead with the Catalyst team at Microsoft. She has been leading the design thinking training through North America and Europe to help Microsoft technology-focused architects and business leadership transition and transform to customer-centric and business outcome solutions. Tracey is also on the board of the Women’s Technology Coalition and a former Women in Technology Director in Dallas. She leads design workshops and customer strategy sessions and has a long 20-year history of technology and design leadership at Fortune 500 companies to drive innovation.

• Chapter 1: Design Thinking Overview and History.- Chapter 2: Preparing for a Workshop.- Chapter 3: Problem Definition.- Chapter 4: Solution Definition.- Chapter 5: Prototype Creation.- Chapter 6: Production Development.- Chapter 7: Production Rollout.- Chapter 8. Appendix A: Sources.