
A decade ago, a Scrum Trainer called Krishan Mathis explained in a simple what agile means to him. Agile is “Inspect & Adapt”, treat people like adults, ask the team and delivery each time. That mantra is still haunting me a subtle way. Ask the team and “Treat people like adults “is about coherence. It…

Cynefin was developed by D. Snowden and Mary E. Bone and was the subject of a 2007 HBR publication entitled “A leader’s framework for decision making”. In January 2011, I was fortunate to attend Dave Snowden’s seminar in Frankfurt, Germany, and although I was on a tiny committee, it changed my perception of the systems.…

In the 21st century, work happens in a social network system. That system is a composition of multiples systems interacting with each other. “The 21st-century business will have to overcome the challenges of customers seeking high-quality, low-cost products, and be responsive to customers’ specific unique and rapidly changing needs”. Bunce and Gould 1996 “Agility requires…

“One of the things which has plagued western society, particularly in terms of management, and that comes in the development, is an obsession with recipes people want to be told. What to do? And I want to make a fundamental distinction there between recipe book users and chefs. If you employ a recipe book user…
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