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Cynefin: Four Frameworks of Portfolio Management

July 5, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Cynefin Framework

In this edition of our Four Frameworks of Portfolio Management series, we'll look at sense making approaches to portfolio management, specifically how to use the Cynefin framework for this purpose. Sense Making Approaches During an era of disruption and massive change, business leaders should use multiple cognitive models to evaluate their strategic positioning. Leaders need multiple approaches that help them create opportunities to avoid making the wrong decisions. When trying to make portfolio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership Tagged With: cynefin, devops enterprise forum, portfolio management

Domains of Work and Cynefin: A Primer for the Business Leader

November 5, 2020 by Jonathan Smart 3 Comments

Given the importance of taking an optimal approach for the type of work, it is important to understand what agile, lean, DevOps, and waterfall are and their history. People, historically, have spent very little time thinking about or improving how they do what they do. This is the fourth in a series of posts adapted from the book Sooner Safer Happier addressing these different frameworks. Approaching Work Based on the Domain of Work As we’ve seen, product development, unique change, is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Sooner Safer Happier Tagged With: agile, business agility, cynefin, devops, Jonathan Smart, lean, Sooner Safer Happier, ways of working, WaysofWorkingSeries

Software Factory to Feature Factory

July 17, 2020 by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick 1 Comment

This post was adapted from Episode 120 of the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast. The Taylorist Mindset and its Outcomes In the Taylorist mindset, management is there to debug the machine of the company. The workers are interchangeable parts. And the job of management is to fine tune the machine and monitor all of the parts to make sure they’re compliant and doing what they’re told. There is a role for motivation here. But the only motivation is negative. Just make sure that people know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, DevOps Community Tagged With: agile, agile conversations, cynefin, devops, douglas squirrel, feature factory, jeffrey fredrick, lean, podcast, taylorist, troubleshootingagile

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