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Building a reflective practice:

What we can learn from elite sports
@mrbootle | #uxcam
Relaxing
Luxurious
Friendly
Giving
Space
Sometimes we’re too busy sprinting
to notice where we’ve come from
Photo: Ghislain Berger
Illustration: Pawel Kuczynski
Building a reflective practice: What we can learn from elite sports – UX Cambridge 2016
Dave and Clive
Captured
Break down your sport
CapturedJONNY “BLOODY” WILKINSON
Research
1. Continuous Learning
2. Deliberate Practice
3. Reflective Practice
The four stages of learning
1
2
3
4
Don’t know
that you don’t know
Know that
you don’t know
Know about it,
but have to think about it
Know it so well you don’t
have to think about it
Mastery
Ignorance
Mistakes
Confusion
Credit: https://braintrainconfidence.coachesconsole.com/the-four-stages-of-learning.html
What can we learn from the
sporting elite?
1. Continuous Learning
Focus, schedule and a goal
ROUTINE
Building a reflective practice: What we can learn from elite sports – UX Cambridge 2016
TRAIN
ANALYSE
REFLECT
SMART Goals
2. Deliberate Practice
Practice the right things
Sir Dave Brailsford
Marginal Gains
LANCE ARMSTRONG
The whole principle came from the idea that
if you broke down everything you could think
of that goes into riding a bike, and then
improved it by 1%, you will get a significant
increase when you put them all together
Dave Brailsford (2012)
“
Marginal Gains
Building a reflective practice: What we can learn from elite sports – UX Cambridge 2016
Clough and Taylor
Only three things will change
behaviour in the long term
Building a reflective practice: What we can learn from elite sports – UX Cambridge 2016
Tiny Habits
[anchor]
+ [new behaviour]
+ [celebration]
Credit: http://tinyhabits.com/
3. Reflective Practice
Deliberate time looking back
Photo: Rishi Bandopadhay
Reflective practitioner
Donald Schön
Reflection-in-action
“thinking on your feet”
• Thinking ahead
• Analysing
• Experiencing
• Critically responding
Reflection-on-action
“naval gazing”
• Thinking through experiences
• Discussing
• Journal
#FAIL
Osymetric
chainring
Building a reflective practice: What we can learn from elite sports – UX Cambridge 2016
Mood diaries
QualitativeQuantitative
WHAT? WHY?
Numbers
Senses
Motivations
Behaviours
What are the marginal gains
you can apply?
Rule 1:

WE’RE ALL BUSY
Agile ceremonies
Stand up / Stand down
Planning // Demos // Retrospectives
Photo: GDS Team
Retrospectives
Reflective sprint
Visit: https://steveblank.com/category/lean-launchpad/
Mood
Walls
Kanban
Design Studio / Crits
Spacial Memory
Writing and drawing
Walking
Photo: José Luis Serrano
Lunch
Team and Peer lunches
People from other companies
Photo: José Luis Serrano
Sleep
Photo: Peter Kirkeskov Rasmussen
Process not tools
What next?
What are the ways you can improve?
Thank you.
Any questions?
@MrBootle | mrbootle.com | popgunuk.com

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