Great piece, John! I love how you've gone beyond the usual "paste in the 12 leverage points" and, instead, addressed how each of them applies in the domain of software engineering. That you also synthesise her ideas with your own experience and wider reading—from the practicality of Dominica DeGrandis and "making work visible" to the higher-order ideas of David Marquet, Frederic Laloux and others—shows the depth of your approach.
Good luck, as ever, with your mission, which seems encapsulated in this phrase of yours: "It involves cultivating a flexible mindset that remains open to innovative solutions, continuously learning, and encouraging emerging thinking, and combining and integrating methodologies to suit situational demands."
Thanks for this! I learnt a lot about systems thinking from our Engineering teams, have spent the last few years trying to apply this to organisational change. It’s great to get some SW specific examples of the leverage points.
Great piece, John! I love how you've gone beyond the usual "paste in the 12 leverage points" and, instead, addressed how each of them applies in the domain of software engineering. That you also synthesise her ideas with your own experience and wider reading—from the practicality of Dominica DeGrandis and "making work visible" to the higher-order ideas of David Marquet, Frederic Laloux and others—shows the depth of your approach.
Good luck, as ever, with your mission, which seems encapsulated in this phrase of yours: "It involves cultivating a flexible mindset that remains open to innovative solutions, continuously learning, and encouraging emerging thinking, and combining and integrating methodologies to suit situational demands."
Thanks for this! I learnt a lot about systems thinking from our Engineering teams, have spent the last few years trying to apply this to organisational change. It’s great to get some SW specific examples of the leverage points.
Excellent article. I’d heard of the book, but now I have to read it. Thanks!