Empirical or science based practices for teams? Why not both?

There are lots of principles in systems thinking and queueing theory that can help us to understand our current system and manage our work. Limits, parameters, execution strategy, power lines already visible and etc.

There’s no silver bullet, as we already understand, and I’m sure you have an unique set of people working with you. They have a set of skills in place, and each one of them have objectives. Your company also have objectives. We need to connect them.

Team players, ego based management, hippo decision making systems? We have the opportunity to go through all of this, living in reality or learning from other people.

Talking about reality, continuous improvement will work along your team reflection and experiments moving forward. Inspect, find ways to improve and apply, in order to test and experiment within your system.

So… why we keep trying to do things “by the book“, trying to copy things instead of learning from the current state?

We need critical thinking. We need people acting using reality and their current challenges to learn, improve and later on understand patterns where we are able to replicate. That’s a whole different process than the “by the book” one.

— Daniel Wildt

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