Showing posts with label Complexity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Complexity. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Dave's Cynefin Model -Framework for Decision Making


The Cynefin framework, developed by Dave Snowden and CF Kurtz, is a model that enhances decision making and understanding how to act in certain situations with different levels of complexity.
The framework helps managers determine the prevailing operative context, enabling appropriate choices and decisions (ref Wikipedia).
I’ve found this model really useful for analyzing certain situations and to make decision regarding ways to approach those situations.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

How Agile Deals With Complexity?


Over the past two decades, we view the rapidly increasing levels of complexity and uncertainty in the environment that all organizations have to respond to. Becoming an ‘agile organization’ seems to be working in complexity environment. This kind of organization has high speed of response to change and its focus on the customer which calls for customized rather than standardized offerings. It ‘s a good application for software development but not only. So How? How does agile deal with complexity?