by Martin Burns | Nov 15, 2014 | Lessons Learned
One of the biggest technology disasters I’ve seen at ground zero is much more easily understood when it’s viewed through a Cynefin lens. And as you’ll see, this description of Disorder is particularly useful. What is Cynefin? If you don’t know...
by Martin Burns | Sep 16, 2014 | Exploration, Patterns
As a community, we claim to value people, yet our practise often conflicts with this. We need to be far better at being empathetic and showing it in our actions as well as our words. So often, people in our community – from a right and proper instinct and...
by Martin Burns | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Given at Lean Agile Scotland, 11 September 2014 This talk was a real high wire act: using a subject of passionate, vociferous (and yet strangely civilised) debate to talk about organisation change. Fortunately, nobody lynched me! [bs_tabs] [bs_tab...
by Martin Burns | Sep 11, 2014 | Recipes
Download the Boardwalk Template Based on real life situations, and tweaked for the taster workshop that Håkan Forss and I designed and ran at Lean Agile Scotland 2014, here is the standard work template we use for Gemba management. Download PDF: Boardwalk Template...
by Martin Burns | Aug 29, 2014 | Learning, Patterns
Beginners’ Patterns are generally ineffective for delivery, but excellent for learning, and building a foundation for far more effective ones. Leapfrogging the beginners’ patterns for evolved ones is rarely effective for building a sustainable capability....
