Steve Holt

@cyetain I’ve seen that more than once. Never pleasant no matter what role you have.

@jasperfforde @soho_press Finished #redsidestory yesterday. Loved the Easter Egg like literary references and the tribute to the long lasting legacy of Harry Beck's map design.

Publication day today, North America Red Side Story has landed. I’m in the US now as part of a small tour - thank you, @soho_press !! Tour details here: jasperfforde.com/appearances.ht…

I just today discovered that not only are colocate and collocate different words with different meanings but they are pronounced differently as well. I had always thought it was just different spellings.

@jasperfforde @snowded Counting the days until May 7th when it’s available in the US.

Huge thanks to the team at Hodder, and of course to all the fantastic readers who came to buy it!

@ian_tb03 @zenpundit @MC_UPress Thanks. Good to know.

@SKHolt @zenpundit @MC_UPress I actually have no idea…it’s not a human narrating the book but more a “text to voice” reading. I haven’t listened to it.

Just found out from @MC_UPress that “A New Conception of War” is now in its FIFTH printing. I never expected a second print run, let alone five. Which means I really need to get cracking on Boyd volume II 😬 Meanwhile, email the Press at mcu_press@usmcu.edu for a free hard copy!

@ElenaWicker @WarOnTheRocks @Doctrine_Man Great article equally true in business. Thanks for the info on James Boren. New favorite quote “Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.”

Let’s talk about national security BUZZWORDS. My latest in @WarOnTheRocks! With special thanks to @Doctrine_Man for a brilliant buzzword bingo card. warontherocks.com/2023/05/full-s…

@TheKrulakCenter Thanks. Some great thinking in those presentations worthy of study.

@SKHolt Yup, we just got the files back from the editor. We’ll have them up next week!

@TheKrulakCenter Are the recordings from the #AY23 Innovation session going to be available? I’d love to rewatch some of them

@damcasterspod @AvHistorian @BeaverWestminst Preordered it last December. Won’t be long now!

@snowded @DigitalBourne @nodosenlared The idea of operating at a cadence is a part of both Lean and TOC though. Tuning a bespoke bike is aimed at an optimal point. Its harder to maintain the best cadence the further off the design conditions. Fatigue, incline, etc change the cadence and the performance

@DigitalBourne @nodosenlared @SKHolt I strongly don't recommend that you attempt to ride a bike on that principle

Initial musings on craft and cadence, a personal reflection setting the scene for more substantive posts in the future thecynefin.co/musings-on-cad…

1/6: Based on actual industrial data, Kanban beats Waterfall and Scrum for total cost of software development and delivery! 🔥🔥🔥 Will simply switching to Kanban improve software development performance? 🧵

@cyetain The epitome of changing requirements but likely less violent than Game of Thrones Driven Development

@cyetain @somesheep Reminds me of curve fitting. You draw a straight line through the data then realize that a curve is better. At some point you end up with a lengthy polynomial that goes through every data point—and is useless.

@cyetain I particularly like the trade off between cost of integration and cost of enforcement. There’s clearly a min cost but it’s going to vary based on org structure, skill, system criticality, etc. Great visual of a complex issue

@cyetain Which is often why the necessary changes are more than just introducing a new method and why tech only planning process improvements often fail

@cyetain Sort of both/and since nearly always in order to have a planning process that works will require a change in technical and social practices.

@HolgerGelhausen @joepeach @NickSherrard @joa_pen @wardleymaps @erik_schon @andankar_manish @johanfrilsbo Thanks for that. Happy to see that it’s accessible. That was a great conference and one of the funnest presentations I’ve ever done. I even snuck in a Pecha Kucha use at the end. Thanks to @cyetain for inviting me to present.

New book arrived

@conways_law @hollingworthpat I’ve been thinking of emergence recently. Some we can predict and depend on. But another type is unpredictable in advance (but seems it should be afterwards). Models can’t predict the 2nd type since they are not in the model. We often confound the 2 types.

The missing theoretical piece we don't have language for and that can't (yet?) be expressed linearly on paper: emergent phenomena arising from network effects. And it has to be understandable in middle school because it will change the way we all think about politics.