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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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Husband | Father 💛 | Agile(ish) coach. Founder of @LeanAgileScot & @LeanAgileGla | Social Practice Theory | Scottish | He/Him

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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
8 years
I just published “Mapping Maturity: create context specific maturity models with Wardley Maps informed by Cynefin”
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When organisations and teams are looking to understand how good they are and where they should look to improve they often reach for the…
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Our next Design Challenge is live! We’re exploring how AI could transform the assessment-call experience ... a process often marked by long waits, repeated questioning, inaccessible formats and huge pressure on both claimants and assessors. What if we could use AI to create
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My first piece of writing for a while. I thought I'd join the AI conversation with a social practice perspective on how Voice AI, in this example, might subtly affect the workplace. https://t.co/hzI1HWmYio @stukennedydev
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Rather than wiping out what we do in the workplace, I posit that AI will instead reshape how we do it. For the most part, it’s less likely…
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Stu Kennedy
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Our first Design Challenge is live! We’re looking at how AI could transform the handwritten PIP form process … a system slowed by huge backlogs, long waits and the challenge of interpreting thousands of handwritten submissions. AI can help bring speed, clarity and fairness to
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Barbara Frontera
2 years
ICYMI, @chrisvmcd will be speaking @ The Complexity Lounge tomorrow, 9/19, at Noon EDT. He'll talk about complexity, change, Agile, and everything else he's learned in the last 20+ years. Well, maybe not everything. Come on, join us.
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@LeanAgileGLA
Lean Agile Glasgow
2 years
On Wednesday we have our August event, kicking off with a talk from Paula McLean on becoming a product-centric organisation, then @chrisvmcd on contextualised learning! We'll be hosted by MBN, and should have pizza. Wed 9th Aug, 6pm doors. Full details:
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For our August event, we have two great talks for you. As warmups for conferences, we've got a preview of Paula McLean's new talk, "Becoming a Product-Centric Organisation"
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Lean Agile Glasgow
2 years
That event we've got next week with a talk from Paula McLean? Well, we just added @chrisvmcd too! He'll be talking about social practice theory and learning. Wednesday 9th August, 6pm doors for 6.15 start. Details:
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For our August event, we have two great talks for you. As warmups for conferences, we've got a preview of Paula McLean's new talk, "Becoming a Product-Centric Organisation"
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I'm finding more and more that my work with organisations and teams involves undoing/reconfiguring the practices adopted to cope with the pandemic.
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@LeanAgileScot
Lean Agile Scotland
2 years
We're delighted that #lascot founder Chris McDermott (@chrisvmcd) returns as a speaker this year with his talk "Re-contextualising 20+ years of learning" https://t.co/mIx8v3sFwG See the full event programme:
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
2 years
I was asked to contribute to a discussion on Agile meet ups/conferences in Scotland and to tell the story about their history. I drew this timeline... what am I missing? @AgileScotland @LeanAgileGLA @LeanAgileScot @LeanAgileEdi @TheFOWScotland
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
3 years
You really have to think about the message you are sending here @Tesco #PeriodPoverty
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
7 years
I just published Triangles — A simple game for a Complex subject
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My goto game to illustrate interdependence, connectivity and complexity is called Triangles. It’s a slight derivative of the Triangles…
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
3 years
I still get goosebumps watching this… Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997 https://t.co/UAu3VMd7uW
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
3 years
Who first said “Stop starting, start finishing”? I’m assuming it’s someone from the early Kanban community but I can’t recall who.
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« Variation vs variability Variability is unintentional differences In products Variation is intentional one Platforms help you lower variability to increase variation» — @cyetain #DDDEU
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@qikipedia
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3 years
Ever wondered if the Myers-Briggs Test is credible? Sandi has the answer... 🗒️
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Jamu Kakar
3 years
The idea that a JIRA ticket should have so much information in it that anyone can pick it up, do the task, and verify acceptance criteria is asinine. So much effort to avoid talking to each other. My mind boggles at this stuff.
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Ana Mandić
3 years
Interesting workshop on Change Mapping run by @chrisvmcd at #LALDN23 All groups in the room came with a different story and mapping, but we all identified the same new practice that can be introduced. And we had good disucssions what that means for us, as a group, in our context
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