2/2 ✂️ I have succeeded with these new approaches in Ferrari F1 Team (where they are needed to survive) and in ThoughtWorks ( @thoughtworks ) , the worldwide leader that pioneered these approaches. And I'm now training, mentoring, and advising other orgs to do the same.

And this is what I will post about. Follow if you want to contribute/challenge/engage in these conversations.

#Introduction #Complexity #ComplexityScience #HumanComplexity #Agility #Lean #Agile

1/2 🧶 I started my career in software development when the speed of tech evolution was accelerating exponentially (and still is, think about AI) & work was mainly an individual (white or blue collar) sport

We had to reinvent the ways of working as a team sport, the tech practices as flexible/adaptable/reversible, and the organisation as an open social community with people (customers & employees) at its centre.

#Introduction #Complexity #ComplexityScience #HumanComplexity #Agility #Lean #Agile

I have just finished to refresh my slides for my session on (the practical application in sw and digital prods development of) Human Complexity.

As a practitioner and not accademic on Complexity Science I know there will be some mistakes.

If anyone is interested to look at the slides and point me to any red-flag with suggestions on how to fix it, that would be great.

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Feedback #LearningInTheOpen

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Orgs => How complexity aware are we and our org?

When looking close enough every org is different. At the same time, all complexity-aware orgs differ from many traditional orgs' common traits. Here a few examples.

How complexity-aware your organisation looks?

Related practices here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #ComplexityAwareness #ModernOrganisations #OrganisationCulture #Book #eBook

Popularising Complexity Thinking in Teams/Orgs => Co-creation is in many cases an effective pattern for tackling Complexity

The opposite of division of labour, task specialisation, siloed function, and restricted info sharing between roles & orgs levels.

Related practices here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

Does your org encourage, allow, disincentivise or prevent co-creation?

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #CoCreation #CoEvolution #Simplicity #Book #Emergence #eBook

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Orgs => Adapting to the Complexity faced

In the past an org may have prevalently experienced one dynamic. Today orgs face a range of dynamics that fluctuate over time between the boundaries of Order & Chaos, wander in Complexity and may spill into Chaos.

So the ability to constantly sense and adapt is crucial.

Related practices here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Sense #Adapt #VUCA #Book #eBook

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Organisations => Assessing the Complexity to inform the adaptation

Is the work the team is doing facing an Ordered, Unordered/Complex or Chaotic dynamic? Is it close to the boundary of Order, to the boundary of Chaos?

Such info will inform the adaptation (of WoW etc) and will avoid personal bias.

Related practices are here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Sense #Adapt #VUCA #Book #eBook

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Organisations => Human Self-organisation, how to thrive outside determinism & reductionism.

A self-organising system left alone can produce a disaster as well as a big win, how to orient it? Heve 5 models, 21 kontrol knobs and an holistic approach

Related practices are here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Determinism #Redutionism #Human #SelfOrganisation #VUCA #Book #eBook

While it may seem a generic Peace & Love message, it has very practical implications.

In a team/org one cannot _sense_ and respond effectively when people don't speak freely and deep listening and empathy are lacking. No tool/AI can fully make up for that.

This is true in our orgs, as well as in our online and in-person Complexity community. Our social skills have consequences.

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Safety #Diversity #Disagreement #CoCreation #SoftSkills

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Orgs => No wo/man is an island. Positive social behaviour is a requisite for tackling complexity.

Whether for defusing or absorbing complexity, people shaping and acting in the environment have a central role. Social skills become essential because no one is an island.

Related practices are here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Safety #Diversity #Disagreement #CoCreation #Book #eBooks

Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Orgs => HUMAN Self-organisation

Let's focus on HUMAN Self-organisation to avoid common mistakes drawing conclusions from self-organisation in molecules, cells, plants, insects, etc.

We have notable characteristics that are not found elsewhere.

Related practices are here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

/cc @josephpelrine

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #SelfOrganisation #HumanSelfOrganisaton #SelfManagement #Book #eBooks

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ORG - all orgs live in a complex/VUCA world; what each one does and its market may be more or less complex; their structure and actions allow them to cope and exploit complexity or just barely endure it.

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All the related practices are documented here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #VUCA #Practices #SelfOrganisation #SelfManagement #CAS #Agility #Book #eBooks

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WORK - Some of it may start at the edge of chaos, some around the boundary between the complex and the complicated, some deep in the complex domain and some can be simple, obvious. Different challenges call for different approaches.

(continue)

All the related practices are documented here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #VUCA #Practices #SelfOrganisation #SelfManagement #CAS #Agility #Book #eBooks

🧶(thread 1/3) Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Organisations=> 3-region map of Human Complexity inspired practices:

WE-In ambiguity, uncertainty, change and crises, we manage to live our lives forward without knowing the future. We solve everyday paradoxes like mixed conflicting emotions.

(continue...)

More here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #VUCA #Practices #SelfOrganisation #SelfManagement #CAS #Agility #Book #eBooks

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FROM THE TRENCHES - When adopting Complexity thinking in the workplace, the role of those doing the work is fundamental because it's them that shape the system and do the work. Complexity thinking has to start from them. In the same way that Personal Computing and good Agile did.

More here => https://www.amazon.co.uk/Luca-Minudel/e/B0BPR7YHQV & https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Practice #Collaboration #Empowerment #SystemsThinking #Book #eBook

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Popularising Complexity thinking in Teams/Orgs=>With a radically different approach:

PRACTICAL-Complexity Science attracts those interested in theory&abstractions. But the vast majority of ppl in Teams/Orgs prefer to learn from practice.

POSITIVELY SOCIAL-In Human Complexity deep social co-creation is essential. The ability to entertain positive social relations is fundamental.

#Complexity #HumanComplexity #Practice #Collaboration #Empowerment #SystemsThinking #Book #eBook

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What else? What not?

More on the relationship between Agile, Agility & Complexity here =>
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPPSXXBT and
- https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/

#Complexity #Agility #Agile #HumanComplexity #SystemsThinking #Books #eBooks

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AGILE<=>COMPLEXITY
-Complexity can explain why Agile works and can help to:
  *spot misunderstandings & common blunders about Agile
  *scale Agile beyond the single-team level

-Agile practices suggest ways of moving a problem from complex into an ordered domain

-Agile suggests social & technical practices & approaches effective for dealing with problems near the boundary between the complex and ordered domain

#Complexity #Agility #Agile #HumanComplexity #SystemsThinking

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AGILITY<=>COMPLEXITY
-Agility, the ability to successfully effect, cope exploit unanticipated changes, is extremely beneficial in the Complex domain

-Experiments&case studies show Agility is positively correlated with the chances to succeed in Complex endeavours

-High Agility fits well w/ more Complex endeavours while low Agility (e.g. more traditional and hierarchical) fits well with non-Complex endeavours

#Complexity #Agility #Agile #HumanComplexity #SystemsThinking

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A few examples of the relationships in the picture.

AGILE<=>COMPLEXITY+AGILITY
-Complexity & Agility can help apply key learning from Agile Software Dev to other non-software domains and other parts of the org

AGILE<=>AGILITY
-Agile Software Development describes ways to achieve Agility in software and digital products development

-Agility theory can help grasp the difference between 'being Agile' and 'doing Agile'

#Complexity #Agility #Agile #HumanComplexity #SystemsThinking