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No Roadmaps for Worldbringers

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020

Goals are for the smaller stuff,specifics of this week, todaybecause we can’t see far enoughto guess what new surprises laybeyond that. Top this nearest hilland pause to find the next clear way.A mountain in the distance stillcalls to us, and yet we staygrounded in the valley hereand set a goal not far away. Tomorrow, top …

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Tags seamap, Systems Thinking

Landing Zones, Long-term Desires, and Impossible Dreams

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020

How do we get from here to where we want to be? Hint: don’t draw a roadmap. The road we’ll travel in six months doesn’t exist yet. Landing zones Landing zone: “an improvement that would feel like an accomplishment, as well as a pause point to catch breath, reassess, and plan how to achieve the …

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Tags agile, change, quest, seamap

Horizonal goals

May 26, 2019April 15, 2018

Video version here There’s this great, short book by John Kay called Obliquity. It’s about goals that you can’t achieve by aiming for them directly; you have to look for an oblique goal that will happen to get you there. Like, you can’t aim for “happiness;” you have to find something such that aiming for …

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Tags abstraction, philosophy, seamap, software

Deliberate impermanence

May 26, 2019November 21, 2017

There’s something magical about post-its falling off walls. ancient post-its on my own wall I think about this as my team spends time pruning tickets, closing ones that seemed important at the time, but now aren’t worth doing. These are ideas that need to fall through the cracks, to slide down the wall behind the file …

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Tags agile, process, seamap

Charting team course with a Seamap

February 17, 2020April 26, 2015

Biggest visible distinguisher of great teams: there is no roadmap – Marty Cagan #CraftConf — Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 24, 2015 Great teams are focused on results, not on projects. But how many of us really see the results of our efforts? Can we track the impact of what we’re doing today all the way …

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Tags agile, complexity, seamap

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