Resisting Conway’s law through more thoughtful mapping
Organisational structures and information architectures are both often visualised in artefacts described as “maps”. These constrained visualisations may embed siloed ways of working, and create problems for our users.https://duncanstephen.net/resisting-conways-law-through-more-thoughtful-mapping/
The forgotten purpose of agile — Empowered teams responding to change
The ideas behind agile tend to be squashed down to two words: “move fast”. But the Agile Manifesto says nothing about moving fast.https://duncanstephen.net/the-forgotten-purpose-of-agile-empowered-teams-responding-to-change/
Devs in tiny teams! 👋
How do you manage peer review? What's important, and what cool solutions have your team come up with to get around the drawbacks when there are so few of you? How about when there's a tight deadline?
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One of the coolest things about my work right now is that I've made it so easy for people to learn how to create OKRs + connected strategies that after an "unexpectedly easy" process of learning, and a cycle or two of independent implementation, clients are looping back for support with actively changing their culture to increase goal achievement...
... which is my mission.
A few years ago, that was a theory.
Today it's *in practice.*
And that feels pretty neato.
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Are we equipped to navigate and address Intractable problems & Elusive opportunities that are so prominent nowadays? Our department? Our leaders? Our organisations?
To find out if this is the case and what to do about it is covered in the coming 2nd edition of my book => https://leanpub.com/theforgottennewphilosophyofworkmanagementleadership/
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<< … most of us are working with an outdated playbook: plays that we have been programmed to run from an older paradigm of leadership - the Industrial Revolution >> - David Marquet, quoted by Marcin Floryan in a conference session
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