Building Complexity and the Construction Community of Practice
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Building Complexity and the Construction Community of Practice
There are two principles that I’d like to highlight here: Bounded Applicability (most things have value if we understand the boundaries within which they are valid) and Coherent Heterogeneity (embracing as much diversity as we can without fragmenting or becoming incoherent).
Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
But even with project managers, cascading failures remain a risk due to the nature of construction. Construction has the unfortunate combination of building mostly unique things each time (even similar projects will be built on different sites, in different weather conditions, and likely with different site crews) and consisting of tasks that are... See more
Brian Potter • Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
Consistency just feels good to our system centric product/engineering/design brains. But it creates a huge coordination cost and prohibits local experimentation – everything has to be run against a single standard that multiplies in communication complexity as the organization gets larger.