Knowledge has to be situated

By Dave Snowden  ·  April 18, 2013  ·  Reflections

My original plan for yesterday was to spend the day walking around Krackow with the camera before getting the flight back to Berlin to run a seminar and pick up again on Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Staatsopera.  When I got the hotel on Monday I looked at the various advertised tours and realised I was near Auschwitz.   I suppose I should have known, but geography is not the first thing that comes to mind when that name comes to mind.  Now I have never been to a concentration camp, let alone an extermination one so I decided it was...

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and so to SCRUM/KANBAN

By Dave Snowden  ·  April 17, 2013  ·  Reflections

Yesterday I updated the Complexity domain model, but left the coherence diagonal for today.  I promised to do this in the context of Agile, Scrum, KANBAN and the like and will do so, although the points are more generally applicable.   I also want to make an important qualification before moving forward.   I know that many Agile practitioners have intuited some of what I am going to talk about, and some have moved onto action.  There are elements of Chris Matts real option theory that I could have more directly referenced for...

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Complex domain: April 2013

By Dave Snowden  ·  April 16, 2013  · 

I've been using the complex domain model for some time now since I first published it.  One of my main aims was to move away from a simple categorisation of methods which is the all too frequent use of Cynefin into a more nuanced and varied understanding of complexity.  There is a lot more to do here, but it's going in the right direction,

Its gone through some minor changes but I don;t intend to repeat the descriptions of the dimensions here - read up on the link.   The main change is to clearly identify the diagonal as the line...

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... when engineers run the world?

By Dave Snowden  ·  April 15, 2013  ·  Reflections

I've fallen behind on this blog over the last week and I have some backfill posts to make on IT Management, the first two parts of the Ring in Berlin and the death of that woman.  But those will come during the week as I have time.  This week I want to focus on issues that relate to the material in our new courses coming up in London, San Francisco and Melbourne.    Today I flew down from Berlin in Krakow where I will keynote tomorrow morning at ACE.  I then get most of Wednesday free as well so I've booked on the Auschwitz tour for...

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A plague of Austenites

By Dave Snowden  ·  April 6, 2013  ·  Great places

A long walk today as I carry on with the North Downs Way. I decided I would let the train take the strain and got the 0613 from Bedwyn that deposited me at Gomshall just after ten and then a short bus strip got me to Shere where I finished stage one a month ago.  A short climb back to the path and then a great walk on the level through woodland with multiple view points over the valley to Ranmore Common.  A lot of memories along this section to Box Hill.   I walked it in reverse a couple of decades ago when we lived in Send although...

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