The Open IT Project: study units - Teal Unicorn

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The schedule of all topics is here.

These are the study emails – “units” – sent so far to those subscribed to the Open IT Project. Other emails for news or admin are not included:

Block 1: Open culture

This is the opening webinar of the Open IT Project

1 The beginning
2 How we got here
3 Be kind. The restoration of humanity to work.
4 The world is VUCA, and why.
5 Survive and thrive: agility and resilience.
6 Ask nicely: empower knowledge workers.
7 Flip the hierarchy: distributing authority, liberating work, invitational management.
8 Gardeners not commanders: servant manager, transformational leader.

Block 2: Open systems

9 Dancing with the system. Complex systems and how to deal with them.
10 JFDI: Just Do It. We don’t know until we do. Experiment and explore.
11 Nudge. Influencing complex systems.
12 Spilled coffee. Failure is normal, an everyday part of work. Embrace it and learn.
13 Bounce forward. Resilience and antifragility.
14 Gazelles Not Cheetahs: agility, iteration, speed to change.
14a Big Horses: adaptability at scale
15 The story so far: a recap of the first two modules

Block 3: Empowered IT

16 Pride at work. Craftsmanship, guilds, meritocracy.
17 The eighth waste. Unfulfilled potential
18 Skills Not Roles. Flow to the work. Shu-Ha-Ri.
19 Power architecture. Authority, influence, and value networks
20 Dead cat Syndrome. Shift left. Dev own Prod. Standing teams. Bring the work to the team
21 Let the people. Doing the work, designing the work, and managing the work.
22 Not used

Block 4: Adaptive IT

23 Live IT. the Adaptive IT system: Improvement, Learning, Feedback, Agile.
24 Scaled Agile: Agile software development at scale.
25 CALMS: DevOps.
26 Black swans and chaos monkeys. Resilience in IT.

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