My theme at DevOps Days Salt Lake City seemed to be diving into the exploration of unintended consequences, especially negative ones. From my workshop on day one on “How can it go to heck in a handbasket? Exploring the Unhappy Path” to my day two keynote “The Lagom Paradox: Sometimes Less is More?!?”, I try to encourage people to see the value of looking beyond the intended consequences to trying to uncover the problems we cause that we are usually blind to and discuss how we can turn it around.
The slides and supporting material are below. I will add the videos as soon as they are released!
Day 1 Workshop
Resources and Sources
- Liberating Structure: Making Space with TRIZ
- My previous blog post on using this to shake up your retrospectives
- Learn more about TRIZ
- Read about Ritual Dissent
Day 2 Keynote
Resources and Sources
- Download the Lagom Discovery Canvas from my site Lagom Solutions.
- The parable on why context matters is from artima.com.
- The moonwalking bear video is available on youtube.
- Listen to Peter Senge explain systems thinking
- Read more on a spectrum thinking mindset and binary vs spectrum thinking
What do you think?
Please comment with your feedback.
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