Looking for a black cat in a dark room with no cat (Cynefin sense making model)

How often do you see a large group of people, many with exceedingly high pay checks, spending hours and hours in meetings looking for a “perfect” solution for a complex business problem? How often did these plans survive the reality tests? It always bugged me to see how teams, especially leadership teams, spend enormous amounts of time developing what they believe is a “perfect plan” and having hard time adjusting it in the future. I was looking for a tool that would help to promote Empirical approach, a culture of experimentation. And I found the answer in Cynefin (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in) sense making framework by David Snowden. Join me to explore the Cynefin framework and see what happens if you apply "best practices" for solving complex problems.

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Our Presenter

Alexander (Sasha) Frumkin (CTC, CSP-SM, CSPO, CSD, CAL-1) is a passionate agile coach and trainer. He has over 25 years of experience in software development, including senior management roles. Ever since discovering the Agile Manifesto in 2007, Sasha has lived and breathed agile and scrum. He believes psychological safety is a foundation for a house of scrum. Sasha partners with his clients to create a culture of brutal transparency, experimentation, and learning by doing. Currently Sasha is a principal agile coach at Bank of the West and facilitates the Agile Practitioner Online Special Interest Group. He is an inspired CST candidate who has already co-trained a few CSM classes. Sasha can be reached at [frumkia@yahoo.com](mailto:frumkia@yahoo.com) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-frumkin-8770141/