Stop Looking for a Black Cat in a Dark Room (Making Sense w/ Cynefin Framework)

How often do you see a large group of people, many with exceedingly high pay checks, spending hours and hours in meetings looking for the “perfect” solution for a complex business problem? How often did these plans survive the reality test? Stop looking for a black cat in a dark room with no cat in it - and instead, learn how to take an empirical approach to solving complex problems.

Alexander (Sasha) Frumkin, Principal Agile Coach for Bank of the West, will talk about concepts from the Cynefin Framework created by David Snowden. In this session, Sasha will show you how to properly assess your situation by utilizing the five domains of the framework, and respond appropriately.

You’ll learn how to use the Cynefin Framework to categorize problems and decisions to avoid using the same decision making approach in all situations, encourage flexibility and adaptation when implementing Agile practices, and effectively manage your time as a leader to finally build an organization that successfully solves problems without ever wasting time.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Alexander (Sasha) Frumkin -(CTC, CSP-SM, CSPO, CSD, CAL-1)
Sasha is a passionate agile coach and trainer. With over 25 years of experience in software development, including senior management roles, he’s helped transform many different organizations. Ever since discovering the Agile Manifesto in 2007, Sasha has lived and breathed agile and scrum. He believes psychological safety is an important 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. He specializes in helping companies and teams through transition to Agile methodologies, and successfully delivering projects on time using Agile frameworks.

Hosted by the Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network and the Tri-Valley Agile Leadership Network

Presented by Hyperdrive Agile