@mlevison awwww thank you! I'm not so much looking to grumble as genuinely looking for info tho. See, I have this simulation...and a hypothesis that it would be best suited to helping folks in large scale orgs who need to learn about or possibly even predict system effects, especially unintended consequences.
@mlevison some - and the videos are getting some traction. Also - the market for the kind of consulting I do isn't great given the current climate in tech, so I'm continuing to develop it since it's definitely a differentiator.
@mlevison I'm not sure. I'd love to find a way for small / independent consultants to help one another. Not sure what that looks like other than general community stuff tho.
I continue to maintain the world’s largest opinionated agile glossary and reference library https://agilepainrelief.com/glossary fed me great content and I will add it.
I strongly prefer the independent players. Ie you guys.
@mlevison@testobsessed you might take a look at the ‘systemic agility’ community on meetup. They are quite active and have many topics on complexity and systems thinking in an agile world.
As far as SAFe goes; while there are agile supporting elements in the ‘operations’ layer, the ‘governance’ layer is just rebranded traditional hierarchy. This is also the cause of the discussions about SAFe in the agile community; it fully supports iterative development and continuous delivery, but it severely crippled the autonomy parts causing the ‘purists’ to not regarding it an agile approach.
@Dave_von_S@testobsessed I’m usually called a pragmatiist not a purist. If the orgs using SAFe make it work for them I’m happy. The orgs I’ve seen using it are really not much better off than before Agile can’t along.
On a related note...anyone aware of SAFe-approved training on systems thinking? I'm aware of the MIT course, but I'm wondering if there's an official course for SAFe that focuses on systems thinking in the context of software development rather than a general course that touches on whole bunch of industries like transportation, manufacturing, medical, etc.
"Overall the whole description of system thinking within SAFe is quite shallow and even though it is mentioned quite often, there is no specific guidance for non-expert in system thinking. Most people just read it and probably move on without a clear understanding of what is demanded from them."
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