I opened yesterday’s post with the metaphor of a river in flow but with stable, or semi-stable elements. A river that can freeze over or dry up, which can be damed and navigated. That image works well for understanding a complex system which has propensities and dispositions. Propensities are aspects of the system which can […]
My opening keynote at the Scaling Agile conference in Brussels yesterday got a good response on twitter and resulted in some good conversations through the rest of the day. As a part of that I put up a slide I have used once before listing examples of sin in Agile practice. I was asked if […]
I promised to summarise my contribution to the Kuwait event on the Knowledge Economy. The subject has been around for a long time but it has increased in importance for countries such as Kuwait where the drop in oil price and long term issues with carbon fuels means that there is a need to diversify. […]
So back to New York last night to open the second day of LeanUX2015. Last year we were in a hotel in New Jersey, this year we flipped to an interesting venue in Brooklyn. The picture shows it before it was converted to a conference venue complete with bar and porta-loos. Very much a […]
One of the things I am enjoying at the moment is the way a lot of things are coming together conceptually. It happens like this when you develop or repurpose knowledge from different sources. Individual practices and ideas make sense in their own right. Then you read more, practice more, and the various origins […]
11: You can’t reduce or aggregate a complex system and trying is wrong a priori Reductionism in human thinking goes back to the early atomism of the Greeks and in a real sense we have never really shaken it off! The idea is that you solve a problem by breaking it down into smaller parts, […]
5: Taking something of value, but then seeking to industrialise it While I detest cults I have more sympathy for my fifth target in this series. There are a lot of things that start off well, but then shift from the capability of an artisan to a fully industrial model in an attempt to scale […]
An interesting extended weekend in an Agile Alliance think tank I joined last year. Then it was held in Hillsborough, this year we changed continents and headed for Stockholm to meet in Ericsson’s offices while staying in the Scandic Victoria Hotel (pictured). I’m not sure even now if the hotel is an eyesore or […]
I’m currently in Stockholm for the Adopting Agile workshop/think tank (it has flavours of both). This is event number four in the series and I joined for event three in Hillsborough last year. Lots of interesting things over the last three days with new projects on creating an artisan model of learning and a complexity […]
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