Building Complexity and the Construction Community of Practice
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Building Complexity and the Construction Community of Practice
The dilemma is a cruel one. For efficiency and conceptual integrity, one prefers a few good minds doing design and construction. Yet for large systems one wants a way to bring considerable manpower to bear, so that the product can make a timely appearance. How can these two needs be reconciled? Mills's Proposal A proposal by Harlan Mills offers a f
... See moreFrederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
When considering the optimal approach to the type of work, it’s not about agile or waterfall. It’s about agile (unknowable, unique) and lean (knowable, repetitive). Waterfall is “Think Big, Start Big, Learn Slow,” for which, in my opinion, there is no excuse. Why would you not optimize for early and often learning, continuous improvement, and the a
... See moreJonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
For me, frameworks provide a structure that can help me manage all of the different dimensions and complexities of whatever I’m working on.
Carol Sanford • The Regenerative Life: Transform any organization, our society, and your destiny
Building is a journey into randomness. By venturing mindfully through a wealth of data, collective histories, and economic considerations, there are remarkable synchronicities to be discovered.
Nikita Singareddy • Building Physical/Digital Spaces for Healthcare, Trends in 💊 Development Timelines and more
Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different ... See more
Jasmine Sun • exit interview
The main issue with production processes in the knowledge work context is that they often must be custom-built to fit each circumstance.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
There is a particularly tantalizing aspect to the building industry’s strategy for getting things right in complex situations: it’s that it gives people power. In response to risk, most authorities tend to centralize power and decision making. That’s usually what checklists are about—dictating instructions to the workers below to ensure they do thi
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