Some time ago we announced a narratives project around the practice and community of Agile Software development. It got stuck for a while but, with now that Cognitive Edge has finished the new version of its fragment gathering system, we should be able to make some progress. This reminded me once again of how, in […]
We are about to start a project with the AGILE community to use SenseMaker™ to understand the current experience of selling AGILE concepts to management, as well as general lessons learnt and knowledge transfer. There are links here to work I am doing on project management and design methods using complexity theory, as well as […]
Earlier today Nigel Thurlow and I were involved in a workshop with Scrum.org, hosted by Patricia Kong, to launch the new Scrum hexi kit. It was recorded so I don’t intend to replicate material from Nigel’s presentation – I was there to present one slide (see the header) and also to be involved in […]
We are excited to launch our new line of QuickSense applications, built on SenseMaker®. A QuickSense is a pioneering way to gather qualitative data about people’s observations and experiences, turned into analysis by the respondents themselves! So, you get authentic analyses of real experiences, rather than external interpretations of them. Results are demonstrated using simple […]
So, it is time for my annual update on frameworks and methods. Last year, I switched from the Cynefin Framework to Estuarine mapping. In part because most of the tensions in the Cynefin Framework had been resolved, and it was time to move on. Cynefin is a decision support framework that recognises complexity theory, while […]
One of the most frequent corrections I have to make to public uses of Cynefin is to clarify that it is a framework, not a model; in some ways, it is more irritating than pointing out that you can’t have five quadrants. The latter I find more amusing in direct proportion to the educational level […]
As a warning, in keeping with its title, this post is a rambling one. It sets the scene for more structured stuff that I hope to post daily over the next couple of weeks while on an extended Asia-Pacific tour. It also flags up various public events during that tour a few paragraphs down. One […]
I’ve always lived in a house ruled by cats, independent creators of their own existence whose essence is so well summarised in my favourite of Kipling’s Just So Stories, namely The cat that walked by himself. I’ve always opposed collars and other attempts to make cats into dogs as summarised in this (successful) campaign to […]
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