Systems Thinking, Project Management, and Agile - Part 1: The Revenge of Frankenagile
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[For this series, it will help to have read "System Dynamics and Causal Loop Diagrams 101."] The ubiquitous employee handbook is filled with rules, regulations, and descriptions of how employees are expected to behave. The larger the organization, the thicker the handbook. Handbooks and associated policies like this have been described as "corporate scar tissue." Someone somewhere at sometime made a serious mistake, whether intentional or not, and so a policy was created to prevent that something from ever happening again. The same effect can be seen with many consumer products that have lengthy warning labels and manual pages stating things not too far from "This toaster is not suitable as a flotation device in the event of a boating accident."
Systems Thinking, Project Management, and Agile - Part 1: The Revenge of Frankenagile
Systems Thinking, Project Management, and…
Systems Thinking, Project Management, and Agile - Part 1: The Revenge of Frankenagile
[For this series, it will help to have read "System Dynamics and Causal Loop Diagrams 101."] The ubiquitous employee handbook is filled with rules, regulations, and descriptions of how employees are expected to behave. The larger the organization, the thicker the handbook. Handbooks and associated policies like this have been described as "corporate scar tissue." Someone somewhere at sometime made a serious mistake, whether intentional or not, and so a policy was created to prevent that something from ever happening again. The same effect can be seen with many consumer products that have lengthy warning labels and manual pages stating things not too far from "This toaster is not suitable as a flotation device in the event of a boating accident."