An online notebook
All change is system change — to say otherwise is to ignore a fundamental truth about organisations being living breathing human systems. Original: https://medium.com/@curiouscatherinehowe/all-change-is-system-change-85ae7917a760
Authoritative, yet simplistic assertions about reuse routinely bypass past experience of just how much work it takes to make something reusable. Original: https://medium.com/@davidcarboni/reuse-a-recipe-for-disaster-822cbb46d3c6
This was originally published as the lead article in my weekly email newsletter. If you’d like to get more of this sort of thing on a regular basis, sign up! I’m sure folk get bored of people like me banging on about digital transformation being more than web forms, or fancy integrations with back office systems. … Keep reading
I know that many organisations are still designed around that hierarchy but if your goal is to end up with an organisation that is less silo’d at the same time as being more collaborative, adaptive and flexible it seems sensible to look to the thinking which is designed to support a more sophisticated view of … Keep reading
Marrying agile habits with traditional local government governance is easier said than done. If we’re not careful, bringing in agile can add another layer of governance, where stand-ups become daily team meetings and show and tells become programme boards and vice versa. It can lead to a hell of a lot of repetition, which in … Keep reading