I’ve been teaching a masterclass her in India to a mixed group and took the opportunity to push myself to get the boundaries as domains version of Cynefin to a point where it could be published for comment and start to develop. I’ve been playing with it for around three months now which a fairly typical gestation time for any new framework or idea. It’s a matter of making sure it passes the napkin test; is coherent to the theory and provides utility for sense-making. I managed it today by drawing the framework then simply adding or extending existing lines and it all came together in two stages, one before and other during lunch; Twitter followers will have seen the iterations.
I’d been thinking about creating a version of Cynefin in which the complex-complicated boundary becomes a domain. The reason for that is a lot of techniques, for example a sprint within Scrum, are boundary transitions rather than domain techniques. In general any linear iteration or experiment is such a transition rather than a domain technique. Complex is about shorter cycle parallel probes. Maintaining a project within the boundary domain is important to prevent premature convergence, so it needs to be more than a line. Over the last couple of days I’ve been thinking of it less as a domain more as a gradient or shadow – which is how it is drawn here.
So the convention is fairly simply, we have three new elements:
Then within the shadow areas themselves:
Disorder is interesting, working on that
So open for comment ….
… and just to be clear, this is a Cynefin extension, not a new Cynefin
PS: My resolution to write a daily blog post stimulated by whatever came in from Gaping Void didn’t survive an accumulation of back email to 800+ and a pretty punishing travel schedule. But I like the idea and may return to it in June and use the weekdays for that leaving the weekend, where there are no mailers for other material.
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