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It s been a moment! COVID disrupted a lot of things, not least my writing. More recently I ve been busy with my new employment with the amazing Assent, focusing on sustainability in manufacturing supply chains. It s deeply meaningful work and I m Continue reading
The latest IPCC reports slid into existence without much fanfare from the media. We should be used to this by now the whole premise of the film Don t Look Up is based on it but given the starkness Continue reading
I haven t written in a while for various reasons, and will probably post more about the climate later (being an even bigger and more important problem), but today I wanted to write about a Really Common Problem that I keep Continue reading
A couple of years back, I wrote about the 2018 IPCC reports. We were, at the time and as a species, doing pretty badly at safeguarding the planet which is our only home. CO2, methane and other greenhouse gas emissions Continue reading
These rules have nothing to do with any methodology (except maybe complexity thinking, because human.) I have found it useful to bear these in mind while I coach. I ve passed them on in various forms to people who are learning Continue reading
The Oatmeal has a fantastic comic on the Backfire Effect that was so popular, they rewrote it with, um, cleaner language. It starts simply. You re not going to believe what I m about to tell you. And it goes on to Continue reading
A short reminder of Cynefin and the difference between domains: Obvious situations can be categorized and have fixed constraints. Complicated situations can be analyzed and have governing constraints. Complex situations can be probed (trying something out that s safe-to-fail) and have enabling constraints. Chaotic situations require you Continue reading
In complexity (new stuff is complex) we prefer to probe; which means to try something out that s safe-to-fail. Knowing things are failing or succeeding relies on feedback loops; but who do we get feedback from? And what do we do Continue reading
One of my clients recently asked me how often I use Cucumber or JBehave in my own projects. Hardly ever, is the answer, so I want to show you what I do instead. The English-language Gherkin syntax is hard to Continue reading
If you re following me on Twitter, you ll have noticed that the amount I m talking about the environment and climate change has ramped up recently. I want to explain why, and why this is probably the most important blog post I ve Continue reading