Weeknotes – Ending 13/10/23
Neil With those bits of work where there is an inherent element of uncertainty, I’d like to adopt a principle where the team preserve some available buffer for any unforeseen circumstances.…
Weeknotes – Ending 06/10/23
Thoughts from the week… Interesting stuff…
Weeknotes – Ending 29/09/23
Due to a confluence of different things that worked better in-person, I did 5 days in the office this week just like the olden times! It was a nice change…
Weeknotes – Ending 22/09/23
Imposing structure on the complicated can be helpful in making sense of things, but can become harmful when the desire to simplify ignores that something is inherently complicated. Eg. Treating…
Weeknotes – Ending 15/09/23
Some conversations about potentially whizzy tech this week reminded me of some previous thoughts about the relative sophistication of a tool scaling with the skills and capabilities to wield it.…
Weeknotes – Ending 08/09/23
Coming back to my open browser tabs on the next working day is good indication for me of where my attention was the day before. A high number of tabs…
Weeknotes – Ending 01/09/23
I've been thinking about the consolodation of tools and improving workflow. Trying to strike the balance between leaning and simplifying and all the associated time and effort it takes to…
Weeknotes – Ending 25/08/23
Expanding on previous thoughts regarding “the map is not the territory”, focusing and organising people around tangible things may be one way to avoid getting overly attached to “the map”.…
Weeknotes – Ending 11/08/23
Had a good chat with someone from a similar organistion doing a similar thing. Always a very useful investment of time. It's incredibly easy to get stuck in your own…
Weeknotes – Ending 03/08/23
I used a problem definition template as thing to hang a conversation on about a couple of new systems. I think this worked quite well in surfacing the basics of…