The document discusses the concept of Popcorn Flow, which advocates for continuous evolution through ultra-rapid experimentation. It presents principles like making change continuous if it is hard, treating all opinions as facts if shared, and reframing "fail fast" as "learn fast." Popcorn Flow uses a kanban-style board to track problems, potential experiments, committed/ongoing experiments, and reviews. It emphasizes experiments that are safe to fail, coherent, run in parallel over the same time period, and include contradictions and naivety.
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A conversation about Change and PopcornFlow
1. If change is hard, make it continuous
Popcorn Flow
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2. THIS IS THE COLOUR FOR
THEORY
THIS IS THE COLOUR FOR
Hands-on
Activities
4. Insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again
and expec4ng di鍖erent
results
Survival is op4onal. No
one has to change
W. Edwards Deming
Far be=er is it to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by
failure... than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor su鍖er much, because
they live in a gray twilight that knows not
victory nor defeat
Theodore Roosevelt
6. Plan a change or a
test aimed at
improvement
Do, carry it
out,
preferably on
a small scale
Check, study the
results. What did
we learn?
Act:
adopt the change or
abandon it or
run through the cycle
again, possibly under
di鍖erent
environmental
condi=ons
7. All experiments must be:
Safe to fail
Coherent
take place in parallel over
the same time period
Within the portfolio:
there must be contradiction
at least one must be naive
息 Dave Snowden AgileMe 2017
About Experiments
9. PopcornFlow Principles
1 - The Virus
If change is hard, make it
continuous
2 - The kaizen urgency
Everybody is entitled to
their own opinion, but A
shared opinion is a fact
3 - The skateboarder
Its not fail fast, fail often,
its 束learn fast, learn often損