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GLASScon Evolving and Agile Organization: Inspiration from Biology
- 1. GLASScon Sparker Evolving an Agile Organization: Inspiration from Biology David Kane Senior Agile Coach, Santeon david_kane@santeon.com @ADavidKane September, 22nd, 2016
- 6. When Something Works, Stick with It
- 7. Disaster Can Lead to Rapid Change
- 8. It Take an Ecosystem
- 9. It Take an Ecosystem
- 11. Fire Makes us Human
- 12. Hive Mind
- 13. Limits to Cell Size
- 14. Limits to Organism Size
- 15. Limits to Group Size
- 17. Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Editor's Notes
- May be wrong biology… May be wrong agility… Start a conversation…
- Bioinformatics gig Most complex software, kludged, source code not available, and has a bug in it. Still underestimating the complexity of the system complexity by orders of magnitude. Humbling Computers and Biological systems metaphors for one another Cancer is a disease of evolution http://cancergenome.nih.gov/
- One of the things that make cancer so difficult -- evolve rapidly -- Find pathways to turn on cells to promote growth -- Turn off pathways than regular growth -- Turn on support paths (Blood vessels) -- Turn o This isn’t even a comprehensive way that new variations can be explored Crossover Point mutations Viruses https://www.boundless.com/biology/textbooks/boundless-biology-textbook/the-evolution-of-populations-19/population-genetics-131/genetic-variation-530-12943/ Genes can be further modified, and regulated. How does your organization experiment with new approaches?
- Does your organization try to have one size fit all? Different forms may be successful in different contexts Genetic variation means constant exploration of new paths to
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48990604/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/death-march-ancient-horseshoe-crab-fossilized/#.V9tL15MrKuo 100 Million year old horseshoe crab Their appearance is the same, but they still evolve…. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/horseshoe-crabs-arent-living-fossils-2/ Sometimes when you find something that works, stick with it…still not a reason not to try experiments
- Ken Schwaber – Hit Rock Bottom http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-really-killed-the-dinosaurs/ Asteroid, Meteor, volcanoes or maybe both cataclysm meant the end of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals Do organizations need to experience outside trauma in order to change?
- http://www.radiolab.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/the-world-s-largest-mining-operation-is-run-by-fungi/ https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other/transcript?language=en
- 10 microbiota cells for every human cell Conditions in microbiota related to illness http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315779/
- http://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/ Nick Lane and William Martin http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/10/20/the-origin-of-complex-life-it-was-all-about-energy/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/science/book-review-taking-on-the-vital-question-about-life.html?_r=0
- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes-us-human-72989884/?no-ist Richard Wrangham Brain 20% of our energy at rest Get more energy from cooked food. 30% more from starches….75% more from protein in an egg Evidence is incomplete, but earliest use of fire may have corresponded with Homo erectus departure from Africa Earliest cooking may have led to the evolution of homo sapiens What are the energy barrier in your organization?
- http://mobprogramming.org/
- http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/28/enormous-bacterium-uses-thousands-of-genome-copies-to-its-advantage/ E-coli 2 micro meters Epulopiscium sp. 300 micrometers – visible to the naked eye -- Live in a resource rich environment What are the limits on the size of your organization? What are the nutrients? Information? Feedback? Purpose?
- http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12479/size-and-shape
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/networks-neolithic-now Unit size in modern armies…. subdisciplines in academia…farming communities that split….implications for scaled agile models
- How does your organization get its signals? What are the constraints on those signals? What are its capabilities to respond to them?
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1014/161014-myelin