Published inBusiness Agility ReviewThe Essence and Appearance of Agility: or Agility’s Eternal ReturnTrying to distill agility to a pure form will not help you…Mar 31Mar 31
Essentialism - the reliance on Plato's concept of essences to specify categories like genders - is…If you have a category, Cat, you want it to have the necessary and sufficient characteristics to include all cats that ever have been, all…Feb 28Feb 28
Published inBusiness Agility ReviewExploring Tensions with DialecticsTensions between two perfectly valid points of view can help open up reflection opportunities and understand context better…Feb 61Feb 61
Published inBusiness Agility ReviewRooting for the Agile Alliance: A New Chapter or Business as Usual?PMI + Agile Alliance: Not the agipocalypse — just trees and rhizomes learning they need each other to grow. Stay curious, not outraged…Jan 41Jan 41
Published inBusiness Agility ReviewUltra-Processed Narratives and Nutritionally-Poor AgilityWhat do approaches to agility have in common with fast food outlets? If either are overprocessed it will have long term consequences…Aug 23, 2024Aug 23, 2024
Cognitive Load, the Learning Environment, and Neurodivergent LearnersReflecting on how cognitive load can be increased in neurodivergent people, and how educators can help create welcoming environments.Feb 10, 20242Feb 10, 20242
The Organisation Doesn’t Exist So Stop Trying To Manage How It ChangesA talk I gave at a practitioner conference this year. I think I might approach aspects of this differently if I did it again, and my boss…Nov 28, 2023Nov 28, 2023
Professionalisation of Agility, or Striating Agile Practice…Should we considered making agile coaching a closed profession, and would it have the effects we hope for?Sep 23, 2023Sep 23, 2023
Requisite Variety, or why the right can’t win without losingIn systems theory, there is a concept called Requisite Variety: that the system must have sufficient diversity to respond to the diverse…Mar 17, 2022Mar 17, 2022
