For those who have asked for the Christmas cooking blog there is no real point. I have very conservative children, so we repeated last years menu, which was a repeat of 2009 (blogged in detail), which was a repeat of 2008 and so on. They are both at University now so they return home in […]
The trouble with allocating Saturday as a work day in a city centre apartment hotel on floor four is that the noise and distraction level is high. That said I managed to get some writing done, along with the chance to reflect on my two earlier posts on babies, plug holdes and bathwater. In the […]
Coevolution in biology references a change triggered by one object interacting with another over time. Bumblebees interact with flowers over time (the illustration obtained from the wikipedia article on the subject which is poor and really needs some attention) and both are modified in the process. The idea has been picked up by many of […]
For some years now I been distinguishing systems thinking from complexity thinking in a variety of ways. Technically I suppose I mean systems dynamics, but the two are largely conflated these days. I should also make it clear that, unlike Stacy in his early books, I am not hostile to systems thinking, but I do […]
A ten city tour for the ACS Education Across the Nation programme on Strategic Knowledge The tour starts this weekend and I’ve summarised the trip below. In addition to the ACS evening lecture tour I’ll be running the new one day Cynefin Seminar in a more limited set of venues. Melbourne has already sold out […]
One of the main premises of the Agile software developments methods ist that software development is a complex domain, and not an ordered, production line type of system such as automobile manufacturing. Unfortunately, the typical Agilist perception of complexity is not quite aligned with any of the main scientific definitions of the term. Agile literature […]
On 14 April 2010 a small volcano erupted in Iceland, and before people could even pronounce the name Eyjafjallajökull, all air traffic in Europe was paralyzed. I was lucky. The eruption caught me while I was at home, and although my wife was happy about me being home for a week, my client was not […]
One of the key points I have been making in the new seminar (and a few keynotes) over the last week is that resilience requires not just a prepared mind, but also a prepared organisation. That means building network connectivity and cross silo deployment capability before it is needed not during the event. Creating mass […]
I’m looking forward to my keynote at the Lean Software & Systems conference in Long Beach California from May 3rd to 6th this year. I also have a whole day workshop on the application of CAS to Lean concepts which will pick up on AGILE and SCRUM. This is a community that has made considerable […]
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