Re-Frameworks

In my experience, the application of Agile frameworks usually leads to a revolutionary approach. Most frameworks are largely prescriptive and are explicitly described as immutable. When all you have is a hammer, every context will be treated like a nail. And when you’ve paid a lot of money for a gold-plated hammer, when you’ve trained a lot of peop

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Too often, we assume innovative ideas and meaningful changes require a blank slate. When business projects fail, we say things like, “Let's go back to the drawing board.” When we consider the habits we would like to change, we think, “I just need a fresh start.” However, creative progress is rarely the result of throwing out all previous ideas and ... See more

good folks are pushing hard across the entire range of human endeavors to find new ways to see, better ways to work. Yet I’ve also heard from these same people, time and again, how hard it is to break out of the professional constraints of convention, common practice and assumed continuity. How hard it is to get those with assets and authority to l

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