Commentary by Rob England Apr 19, 2021 Cynefin 3D updated Reading Time: 4 minutesYears ago, I drew a 3D version of Cynefin as I saw it. Others have done the same. It came to me while I was trying to relate Cynefin to my own simpler sense-making approach Standard+Case. Dave Snowden himself suggested an improvement to it. I keep refining it, I’m now on version 11. Read More
Commentary by Rob England Apr 8, 2021 Our theoretical foundations Reading Time: 3 minutesWe get asked about whether we base our work on Lean or ToC, waterfall or Agile, Scrum or Kanban, cybernetics or something-or-other, Freud or Jung (well, almost) …. The answer is we don’t care. Read More
Commentary by Rob England Apr 7, 2021 You can manage what you can’t measure. Reading Time: 2 minutesDrucker purportedly said “if you can’t measure it you can’t improve it” or “…manage it”. (If he did actually say them). Any manager who is incapable without metrics is a terrible manager. You can drive a car without a dashboard. Read More
Commentary by Rob England Apr 7, 2021 Philosophy of work Reading Time: 2 minutesContrary to how it may seem with pages like New Ways of Thinking, I’m not really much interested in abstract philosophy of work. Our passion is its application to make work better. Read More
Commentary by Rob England Mar 9, 2021 Why diversity Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are really good practical reasons for embracing diversity. Looking good isn’t one of them. Read More