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Complexity in Action Strategies
- 1. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Complexity in Action Trent Hone
- 2. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Trent Hone • Agile Coach with Excella Consulting, Arlington, VA • 20+ years of development experience • Award-winning historian 2
- 3. excella.com | @Honer_CUT What is Complexity? What are its Implications? How can we promote learning and innovation in complex environments? Complexity in Action
- 4. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Biological systems are complex Human systems are complex Your organization is complex Many of the challenges we face are complex Complexity is not new…
- 5. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Cynefin Framework Dave Snowden Cognitive Edge
- 6. excella.com | @Honer_CUT What is Complexity? • Systemic and synergistic • Path dependent • Context-sensitive • Emergent future Boulton, Allen, Bowman, Embracing Complexity
- 7. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Alicia Juarrero
- 8. excella.com | @Honer_CUT What Else? • Mechanistic models deeply flawed • Traditional behavior counterproductive • What do we do instead?
- 9. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Alternative Theories… Helmuth von Moltke: “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Stephen Bungay The Art of Action
- 10. excella.com | @Honer_CUT American Conceptualization
- 11. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Mahan and the “New” Navy • President of Naval War College (NWC) • Feared “techno-centric” solutions • Naval command as “art” • Knowledge, skill, experience
- 12. excella.com | @Honer_CUT NWC “Conference Method” Collaborative “Sense Making” • Evaluate plans • Develop options • Agree what to do Psychological Safety
- 13. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Experiments in the Fleet
- 14. excella.com | @Honer_CUT “Estimate of the Situation” • Fractal “command canvas” • Flexible plans and orders • Express “Commander’s Intent” & Tell subordinates what not how • Today called “Mission Command”
- 15. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Torpedo Boat Destroyers
- 16. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Battleship = “Fail-Safe”
- 17. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Smaller ships = ”Safe-to-Fail”
- 18. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Sims and ”Doctrine” • Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla • Commander in Europe, 1917 • Promulgated a Doctrine to guide his subordinates… What’s a doctrine?
- 19. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Doctrine is a set of Heuristics • Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow • A heuristic is “a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions.”
- 20. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Doctrine as Heuristics • Doctrine is a pattern of decision-making • It is “the set of implicit and explicit assumptions that govern the behavior of an organization.” • “It is what we fall back on when precise instructions are unavailable.”
- 21. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Example Heuristics (Doctrine) • Always Pair on the JavaScript Objects • Have a Script for Every Release • Talk through challenges on a walk
- 22. excella.com | @Honer_CUT The U.S. Navy’s Approach • Use collaborative sense- making to explore opportunities and plan • Provide goals and objectives to subordinates, allow them to determine how to meet them • Foster safe-to-fail experimentation and creativity of teams • Create heuristics to help solve challenging problems, eschew rote solutions
- 23. excella.com | @Honer_CUT You can do this today! Here’s How
- 24. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Employ Collaborative Sense-Making • Leverage collective knowledge through: • Standups • Retrospectives • Planning sessions • Etc… • Allow the future to emerge
- 25. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Use “Mission Command” • Define what, not how • Foster creativity within your teams • Allow them to explore options and identify new opportunities
- 26. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Perform Safe-to-Fail Experiments • Allow variation between and among teams • Explore the problem space more rapidly • Respect context and history
- 27. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Develop Doctrine/Heuristics not Processes • Our work is “art” not ”science” • Develop contextual patterns • Exploit unforeseen opportunities • Evolve more rapidly
- 28. excella.com | @Honer_CUT Thank You – Any Questions?