Founder & CEO, Enthiosys, Inc.
Luke Hohmann, is the Founder and CEO of Enthiosys, Inc., a Silicon-Valley based software product management consulting firm. Luke is also the author of Innovation Games(sm): Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions, and Journey of the Software Professional: A Sociology of Software Development. Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering and an M.S.E in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior in addition to data structures and artificial intelligence. He is a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion and American College of Sports Medicine certified aerobics instructor. A member of the PDMA, ACM, and IEEE, in his spare time he enjoys rough housing with his four kids, his wife's cooking, and long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains (because he really does enjoy his wife's cooking).
Presentations by Luke Hohmann
This hands on, "learning by doing" class describes 12 proven techniques for working with customers, and in the process understanding what your customers really want. They're fun, and they work."
Books by Luke Hohmann
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Many excellent books have been written on software architecture. These books, which, among other things, define, classify, and describe software architectures, define notations for representing and communicating architectural choices, and provide guidance on making good architectural decisions, have enduring value. Unfortunately, while these books may help you build a successful architecture, they fall short of the goal of helping you create a winning solution. To create a winning solution, you need to move beyond subsystems and interfaces, beyond architectural patterns such as Front Controller or Pipes and Filters, and beyond creating third-normal-form relational databases. You need to move beyond software architecture and move toward understanding and embracing the business issues that must be resolved in order to create a winning solution.
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Available At: http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=020..
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The toughest part of innovation? Accurately predicting what customers want, need, and will pay for. Even if you ask them, they often can’t explain what they want. Now, there’s a breakthrough solution: Innovation Games. Drawing on his software product strategy and product management consulting experience, Luke Hohmann has created twelve games that help you uncover your customers’ true, hidden needs and desires.
You’ll learn what each game will accomplish, why it works, and how to play it with customers. Then, Hohmann shows how to integrate the results into your product development processes, helping you focus your efforts, reduce your costs, accelerate time to market, and deliver the right solutions, right from the start.
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Available At: http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Games-Creating-Breakthrough..
