Many lean-agile teams are being challenged in their growth path. They are not able to grasp the emergent opportunities that are presented by a changing environment and they cannot overcome the barriers to get to the next level of performance.In this interactive presentation, lean-agile practitioners will learn how resiliency thinking can bring them to the next level. Resilience is the ability to survive, adapt, and even grow amidst disruption. It is the capacity to absorb disturbance without losing (team) identity. While resilience models have been mainly developed n socio-ecological research, we will show how they can drastically enhance lean-agile thinking. We will show how to analyze a team from a resilience perspective using the panarchy model and its adaptive cycles; and we will demonstrate how to improve resiliency through modularity, diversity, and translational leadership.
Participant will leave the session with the insights to bounce back from disruptions.
#3: I am as curious as I hope you are. Bring together two things that interest me a lot. One is evolutionary change with kanban and the other is resilience.In the process we will show how concepts that have been developed in the management of socio-ecological systems to the management of socio-technological systems (the world we live and work in).This may sound very conceptual. However, I do hope to be able to provide a set of concepts that help you make better sense of the change processes that you are going through or you will be going through in the future.Jasper storyJeff story
#4: In 1992 the Canadian government declared a moratorium on the Northern Cod fishery. After a 500 year tradition on abundant cod, the fish stock abruptly collapsed to near extinction level following the overfishing since the late 50s and an earlier partial collapse in the 70s. Considering the importance of the cod fishery to the livelihood of Canada’s coastal communities, and the Northern Cod’s initial abundance in the region, the commercial extinction of the northern cod – from which to this day it has not recovered – is nothing short of shocking.The collapse can be considered a surprise. By 1976 it was abundantly clear that the northern cod was overfished due to unbridled foreign fishing and that Canada had to undertake a rebuilding process. As a countermeasure, Canada declared a 200-mile exclusive fisheries zone. Foreign fishing was phased out and the federal government developed a science-based system of fisheries management. The concept of total allowable catch remained the key management tactic, but a more modest fishing mortality target replaced the MSY as the standard for calculating quotas. Under this new target, roughly 18% of exploitable cod biomass would be harvested annually, providing, it was believed, a buffer against stock assessment errors and enforcement deficiencies and a rather rapid buildup of stocks. A period of cautious and incautious optimism ensued, fueled by signs of a rebound in the fish stocks and fairly consistent scientific stock assessments that led to projections of even higher catches in the future. Why then the commercial extinction of the northern cod in 1992?
#5: Good example of our failure to manage complex systems.While politics was the root of much of the issue, one of the more crucial parts of the state's mismanagement was played by scientific miscalculation of the cod stocks and their ability to regenerate. Management of a resource is an extremely complex task, with a multitude of interests, perspectives, and sources of information to take into account; when knowledge regarding the resource is limited, or clouded by imprecision, the task of managing it becomes even more difficult. The management of fisheries is associated with an especially high degree of uncertainty due to problems inherent in the nature of the resource. Newfoundland’s cod fisheries were no exception: an imperfect understanding of the ocean ecosystem; technical and environmental challenges associated with observation techniques, which led to incomplete data on the resource (the cod); and the naturally high levels of variability in the population due to dynamic environmental factors (such as ocean temperature) combined to make it arduous to discern the effects of exploitation.[11] Unfortunately, this led to predictions about the cod stock that were mired in uncertainty, making it more difficult for the government to choose the appropriate course of action.Commercial Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) bedeviled the cod. CPUE data are used to calibrate and fine tune stock assessments from which total allowable catch is set. It seemed reasonable to scientists that catch rates and total stock abundance are related in a linear fashion.
#6: Leading to:Quantification leading to unwanted outcomesTreating the environment as unvaryingNarrow focusOne-size-fits-all
#8: From socio-ecological system -> socio-technological systems