The Cynefin Agile Lean Mixup
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that several thinkers, practitioners, and researchers have teamed up to “further the application of ...
Unprofessional Behavior
Jeffrey Wammes is a Dutch gymnast who was not selected for the Olympic Games. His (former) coach said on TV that Jeffrey did not behave l...
You’re Not a Complexity Thinker When…
You’re not a complexity thinker when… you claim your interpretation of complexity is correct, while others’ are wrong. Because, amo...
Systems Thinking in a Bar
People assume that systems exist, but they are nothing more than abstractions in our minds. They exist because we think. What would happe...
Complexity versus Lean versus Agile versus Me
While the experts are battling over each others’ ideas, I remind myself that all models are useful (though some fail faster than others...
Complexity Thinking (presentation)
Here's my latest presentation (that I'm still working on). It is called Complexity Thinking. I did it for the first time this wee...
Triple-Loop Learning
So, you want to build a product? The First Loop The first thing you should do is to gather requirements. What is it that users want your ...
The Illusion of Control
Control is an illusion. Do you think you’re in control of yourself? Hah! Think again. Your eyes capture only a tiny percentage of what ...
Old Ideas, New Words
Sometimes I am accused of re-iterating old ideas, and not adding much that’s new. They say my ideas are just old messages in new words....
Wasteful ProductOwners?
In his recent blog post Banish “Priority” and “Prioritization” David Anderson (of Kanban fame) argues that prioritization of feat...
People Decide, Models Inform
Reducing variety is often not the right approach when trying to handle the complexity of the world. I’m writing this text while I’m o...
It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity
A software project is a network of people, interacting together for their own purposes. We can see part of that network as the system of ...
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