Agile for Rocket Scientists with Tiani Jones

This week’s episode is sponsored by… me! In the guise of my consultancy Embodied Agility. Embodied Agility helps your teams collaborate better by providing training, coaching and mentoring for your leaders and teams. Wherever your organisation is in it’s lifecycle from startup to supergiant, better collaboration helps you build better products, quicker, cheaper and easier and Embodied Agility is here to help. To book a free 1 hour coaching and exploration session with me go to embodiedagility.co.uk

Today’s guest is Tiani Jones. Tiani has spent over 20 years in Engineering and Technology. She has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, she’s worked with teams from diverse domains including mobile applications, IT consulting, flight simulation, aerospace, software localization, and consumer electronics.

 Her special interests  at the moment are Cynefin and Complexity, Theory of Constraints flow metrics. When not reading white papers on exogenous and endogenous uncertainties, Tiani enjoys weightlifting, languages, fashion, and art and it was a delight to have her on the podcast. You can find more about Tiani at properscience.co

In the podcast we covered many many topics! But some highlights for me were:

* The difference between teams working in software and hardware manufacturing

* Managing socio-technical systems

* Different definitions of complexity

* Working alone versus working collaboratively

* black box thinking

* Is chess a game of complexity?

* Tools for helping teams - Wardley Mapping and Current and Future Reality trees

* Getting into your first agile job

SHOW NOTES

Social Practice Theory

Westrum’s Typology

Detmer’s Logical thinking process

Flow Engineering

Qcon London

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