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Tag Archives: Agile
AdaptiveCM Workshop in America for first time
The Sixth International AdaptiveCM Workshop will be associated with the EDOC conference this year, which will be held in Quebec City in October 2017 and is the first opportunity for many US and Canadian researchers to attend without having to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptive, Adaptive Case Management, Agile, Conference
Tagged acm, Adaptive Case Management, AdaptiveCM, Agile, Case Management, CMMN, conference, DCR Graphs, Technology
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Wirearchy – a pattern for an adaptive organization?
What is a Wirearchy? How does it work? When should it be considered? When should it be avoided? What are the advantages? This post covers the basics elements of a Wirearchy.
Posted in Adaptive, Agile
Tagged Agile, human process, learning organization, management, wirearchy
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Emergence versus Entropy in Management
Julian Birkinshaw professor at the London Business School had an interesting article in Forbes a couple weeks ago titled “Managing Complexity: The Battle Between Emergence And Entropy” which comes close to, but falls just short of, making a good recommendation … Continue reading
The Origin of Reductionism
I have written many times about how culturally we have a tendency to want to simplify problems, and solve the separate parts, and this is reductionism. Scientific management is based on this idea, and it is one of the ideas … Continue reading
Race-cars, Drivers, and Mechanics
I met with a Fujitsu executive last week, and we naturally got onto the topic of software development methodology. I presented my case that it is critical that programmers know the actual customer because 90% of all decisions that effect … Continue reading
Adaptability as a Competitive Advantage
One of the better summaries on how companies need to be adaptable is the Harvard Business Review article by Martin Reeves and Mike Deimler called “Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage“.
Naive Intervention makes Poor Process Design
Continuing the pattern from my past few post on Antifragile concepts, today consider Naive Intervention, that idea assuming that simple model actually represents a complex system can lead to disastrously bad decisions.
