The Impact of Tragedy on Project Success: Lessons from Apollo 1

My guest today is IT consultant and author Jeff Sussna. Jeff’s liberal arts background has given him a unique perspective on digital transformation. In this episode, we explore the relevance of cybernetics to today’s complex design and DevOps challenges.

Listen to the full conversation

 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the-informed-life-episode-15-jeff-sussna.mp3

Show notes

• Sussna Associates
• @jeffsussna on Twitter
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
• Norbert Wiener
• Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman
• Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
• The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener
• Lean startup
• Agile software development
• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems, by Joanna Macy
• Claude Shannon
• The Net of Indra
• Ranulph Glanville
• Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy by Jeff Sussna