Is Mindset Yet Another Agile Buzzword?
summary
Argues that “mindset” is a misleading excuse and that decisions are triggered pattern matches not programmable models, supported by the inattentional blindness finding (a gorilla image is missed by 83% of radiologists). Recommends concrete methods: use story-based contour maps and dispositional mapping to measure attitudes, stimulate informal networks (IBM found a ~60:1 informal to formal ratio), run transgenerational pairing and pre-scrum triple‑H prototyping, apply a see‑attend‑act vector approach and trigger small nudges when map indicators shift.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27The fad cycle
- 5:35The problem with the mental model
- 10:33The famous experiment
- 14:13Postcartesian concepts
- 16:03Autonomic processing
- 17:50Why people make decisions
- 20:11The Paradox of Scrum
- 23:50Informal Networks vs Formal Networks
- 26:02How to Manage Culture
- 28:18Vector Theory of Change
- 29:24Agile Language
- 30:54Agile Manifesto
- 32:34Sense Making
- 34:23After 911
- 35:44Multiactor environments
- 36:28Pragmatic Agile
- 37:45Appreciative Inquiry
- 39:04Agile needs to stop becoming a bandwagon
- 40:13Whats valuable in the old
- 41:39Transformation from what outcomes are desired
- 42:26A skill the experience
- 44:08Agile transformation
- 46:14Mapping informal networks
- 49:17Nurture vs nature
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