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
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