"We often give building a house as an example of something in the complicated sphere. But then we talked in recent episodes about the nightmare build of the Sydney Opera House – that was complex, but people were treating it like it was complicated. What's the difference? What makes one complicated and one complex? Is it a sliding scale from one to the other? How do you know which realm you're in?"
This broad question comes up a lot when people encounter complexity.
- Hello again, Cynefin
- The phase shift from complicated to complex
- You're not "in" any domain: instead, you decompose a project or situation into smaller chunks, distribute those chunks into domains, and then you can use applicable methods
- Then your job is to move those chunks from one domain to another – like constraining something complex and unpredictable so you can make it more predictable for you
- Estimating Complexity by Liz Keogh: have you done this before?
- Light switches vs electricity substations vs energy markets vs power failures.
- Fun with etymology
- "An aeroplane is complicated; a mayonnaise is complex"
- The role of connectedness
- Global warming and a social ice age
- Many folks are intuitively good at handling complexity without knowing all the words and that's OK
- Processes and procedures to make things less unpredictable ... until they stop working
- Methods to achieve the liminal complex to complicated phase shift
- A Simon Wardley example of waste in an organisation
- The surface layer of a thing is not necessarily everything that thing does
- Boeing and the slip over the cliff from Clear to Chaos
- Chesterton's aeroplane seat
- Seeds vs Soil
- The liminal complicated zone where experts disagree and people have Opinions.
- If there's disagreement about an element of a project, decompose it until the disagreement goes away
- Is there always a level of decomposition where you stop disagreeing?
- Football example ...
- Jefferson Fisher's courtroom example ...
- The move into Aporia and the EU Field Guide for Managing Complexity
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