Comments on: Balancing Anticipation and Adaptation http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation Succeeding With Agile® Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:54:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Tropea http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation/comment-page-1#comment-59378 John Tropea Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:21:27 +0000 http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=256#comment-59378 I like what Dave Snowden calls anticipatory awareness, and how he relates it to not just a product but perhaps a project or task or initiative http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/05/leadership_as_coherence.php "Trying to design long term policy initiatives on the assumption that the future is fully knowable, a dangerous mistake. Modern approaches to decision making focus on creating multiple, low risk , low cost, parallel safe-fail experiments. Those that result in beneficial results are amplified, those that are negative are abandoned. The experiments reveal the evolutionary possibilities of the system and allow us to move from a doomed attempt at anticipation, to creating a state of anticipatory awareness" More here http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2007/06/life_can_only_be_understood_ba.php http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2006/10/a_return_to_manege_rather_than.php I like what Dave Snowden calls anticipatory awareness, and how he relates it to not just a product but perhaps a project or task or initiative

http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2008/05/leadership_as_coherence.php

“Trying to design long term policy initiatives on the assumption that the future is fully knowable, a dangerous mistake. Modern approaches to decision making focus on creating multiple, low risk , low cost, parallel safe-fail experiments. Those that result in beneficial results are amplified, those that are negative are abandoned. The experiments reveal the evolutionary possibilities of the system and allow us to move from a doomed attempt at anticipation, to creating a state of anticipatory awareness”

More here
http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2007/06/life_can_only_be_understood_ba.php
http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2006/10/a_return_to_manege_rather_than.php

]]> By: Links for November 8 2009 | Eric D. Brown - Technology, Strategy, People, Projects http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation/comment-page-1#comment-55803 Links for November 8 2009 | Eric D. Brown - Technology, Strategy, People, Projects Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:45:01 +0000 http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=256#comment-55803 [...] Balancing Anticipation and Adaptation by Mike Cohn on Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile® [...] [...] Balancing Anticipation and Adaptation by Mike Cohn on Mike Cohn’s Blog – Succeeding With Agile® [...]

]]> By: Agilie projects don’t need architects? « Geir Hedemarks blog http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation/comment-page-1#comment-55673 Agilie projects don’t need architects? « Geir Hedemarks blog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:06:16 +0000 http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=256#comment-55673 [...] Cohn wrote someting about this yesterday on his blog. There is obviously at least one proponent of agile – with a proven track record – who [...] [...] Cohn wrote someting about this yesterday on his blog. There is obviously at least one proponent of agile – with a proven track record – who [...]

]]> By: Robert Dempsey http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation/comment-page-1#comment-55520 Robert Dempsey Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:59:16 +0000 http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=256#comment-55520 Great point Mike. This balance is very useful is prioritizing the project as well, and helps us focus on the right questions of what's going to have the biggest impact now, or what's going to make the most money now. Great point Mike. This balance is very useful is prioritizing the project as well, and helps us focus on the right questions of what’s going to have the biggest impact now, or what’s going to make the most money now.

]]> By: Dan Bergh Johnsson http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/balancing-anticipation-and-adaptation/comment-page-1#comment-55509 Dan Bergh Johnsson Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:26:06 +0000 http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=256#comment-55509 "by planning to adapt as they arise." I like! Very well put. This kills the misconception that agile does not plan, only "make mistakes, and adjust". We actively make the analysis whether the problem is better to solve now (BUF Plan/Req/Design/Code) or if we await data that gives more information before deciding - i e "plan to adapt". This reminds me a lot about the analogous misconception about TDD though of meaning "should not think ahead", whereas it really is "do think a long way ahead, but realise only a little at a time". “by planning to adapt as they arise.” I like! Very well put.
This kills the misconception that agile does not plan, only “make mistakes, and adjust”. We actively make the analysis whether the problem is better to solve now (BUF Plan/Req/Design/Code) or if we await data that gives more information before deciding – i e “plan to adapt”.
This reminds me a lot about the analogous misconception about TDD though of meaning “should not think ahead”, whereas it really is “do think a long way ahead, but realise only a little at a time”.

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