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Boundaryless Conversations Podcast#104 - Season 5 Wrap-Up: Thinking and Doing Inside and Beyond the PlatformWe reviewed all the 20 episodes from Season 5, and shared some much needed look back and key highlights.
While the learnings are an abundant treasure trove, we handpicked a few and categorized them into 4 sections:
Dystopian aspects of current socio-technological trends with Sangeet Paul Choudary, James Currier, John Robb and Jeremiah Owyang
Visions that resist the dominance of powerful technological forces with Alex Komoroske, Kelly Sarabyn and Scott Brinker, Jesse Walden , Jason Fried and Arvind Gupta
Doctrine and organizing for a multiplicity of teams and products with Craig Strong, Teresa Torres, Charles Betz, Susanne Kaiser and Cliff Be...2024-07-1523 min
Happy Path Programming#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond HjortelandWe chat with Trond Hjorteland about Agile and why it hasn't led to successful outcomes in many traditional organizations.
Mentioned and related resources:
Trond & João Rosa's training on Agile + DP2
Open Systems Theory
LinkedIn Group for Open Systems Theory
More material on Open Systems Theory
Resource List from Trond
Some of Trond's recorded talks
2024-06-1055 min
Boundaryless Conversations Podcast#95 - Avoiding the Agile Bureaucracy with Rosa and HjortelandIn today’s episode, we are joined by João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, two organizational consultants with a unique point of view, who take us through the depth of Open Systems Theory, and what it means to be socio-technical practitioners, passionate about transitioning democratic organizations to fast-flowing operational models.
With many years of experience in large and complex contexts, they delve into what it means to create a collaborative and democratic organization, and how to balance mission, business outcomes, and cognitive load.
Join us on this episode, as we debate the role of “purpose”, entrepre...2024-03-051h 02
Avanscoperta - Interviews with expertsIntentional Architecture - João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland (Small Talk)👉 João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland - Intentional Architecture (Domain-Driven Design, Systems Thinking, Wardley Mapping and Team Topologies)Small Talk is a series of live-stream interactive events with our experts. This time we talk with João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, authors of the brand-new Intentional Architecture in-person Workshop.What is Small Talk? It's an informal 30-minute chat on the area of expertise of our trainers, where you'll have a chance to interact with them, ask questions and learn straight from the source.Small Talk is a chance to go behind the scenes of our exper...2023-05-1948 min
Oddly InfluencedE29: Interview: Trond Hjorteland on a radical approach to organizational transformationOpen Systems Theory (OST) is an approach to organizational transformation that dates back to the late 1940s. It's been applied a fair amount, but hasn't gotten much mindshare in the software world. It has similarities to Agile, but leans into self-organization in a much more thoroughgoing way.For example, in an OST organization, teams aren't given a product backlog, they create it themselves.if a team decides they need to slow the pace of delivery to learn new things or to spend more time refactoring, their decision is final.pay is based on skills, not productivity, s...2023-04-1044 min
Virtual Domain-driven designEffective team collaboration and why we need it for modern product experiences?oday most software products are highly networked and distributed solutions used by 1000s if not -10000s of people spread across the globe. To produce an experience that is intuitive and delivers a quality service worldwide, multi-culturally, and 24/7 across all time zones, you need a multi-disciplinary and diverse set of individuals i.e. a tailored team. Join us in this panel with: Dawn Ahukanna Jessica Kerr Ruth Malan Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Mathias Verraes Trond Hjorteland2022-05-101h 58
Virtual Domain-driven designOpen Sociotechnical Systems Thinking with Trond Hjorteland The term “sociotechnical” seems to have gotten a bit or renaissance lately, which is a great thing given all the positive impact it has had on many organisations and their workers around the world over the years. It also seems to have gotten some traction outside the academic circles this time after being developed and pushed from there mostly using action research since its humble beginning in the post-war British coal mines. It is an entry into systems thinking for many, with its idea about joint optimisation of both the technical and social aspects of an organisation. A common examp...2021-11-291h 49
Greater Than Code242: Considering The Social Side of Tech with Trond Hjorteland01:20 - The Superpower of Sociotechnical System (STS) Design: Considering the Social AND the Technical. The social side matters.
Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity by Michael C. Jackson
Open Systems
Mechanical
Animate
Social
Ecological
On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events
09:14 - The Origins of Sociotechnical Systems
Taylorism
Trond Hjorteland: Sociotechnical Systems Design for the “Digital Coal Mines”*
Norwegian Industrial Democracy Program
18:42 - Design From Above vs Self-Organization
Participative Design
Idealized Design
Solving Problems is not Systems Thinking
29:39 - Systemic Change and...2021-07-2148 min
Virtual Domain-driven design[Panel] Fostering autonomous teams with proper leadership cultureDomain-Driven Design is a lot about collaborative modelling, understanding the user's needs collaboratively to design and implement the best fitting model. We want the teams to do this as autonomous as possible, getting fast feedback and new insights into improving that model. At the same time, they need to stay aligned with the company goals and strategy and other teams. To ensure this alignment, companies hire managers and architects for that task. But what decisions should be made centralized, and what decentralized? What part of managing should be autocratic, and what should be participatory? Join us in...2021-02-241h 32
Software Crafts PodcastInterview with Trond HjortelandIn this episode, our guest Trond Hjorteland is challenged with the heuristic “Complex systems evolve out of simple systems that worked” from Embedded Artistry repository (https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2018/04/26/embedded-rules-of-thumb/). We discussed how communication is important, and moving from the big picture to code and back. He shares the techniques and practices to have crucial discussions with people with different perspectives involved in the creation of software. Trond recommends the following resources: Anything from Umberto Eco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco) Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writ...2021-01-2035 min
Virtual Domain-driven designBalancing upfront design versus iterative designWe want early feedback to inform foundational or load-bearing decision making before committing to hard/expensive to change design decisions. But we don’t want to start building based on flawed design decisions, the consequences of which are hard/expensive to change when we discover it is faulty. The problem is, how do we balance these two polarities from an either-or to both-and thinking. In this session, we will explore contexts and tradeoffs in upfront design versus iterative design. Joining us to share their perspectives and experiences in a never-ending discussion are: *Dawn Ahukanna (Design Principal an...2020-06-261h 49
Virtual Domain-driven designSunDDDay discussion: EventStorming and User story mapping for domain discoveryOn this first SunDDDay 26th May at 16:30 Central European Time (Amsterdam GMT +2), virtual DDD meetup will hold an online panel discussion where you can ask questions! Marco Heimeshoff, and Kenny baas-Schwegler (with a possible attendance by Zsófia Herendi and Trond Hjorteland) will discuss their experience with EventStorming and User story mapping for domain discovery. The two main questions are: * How can we best combine User Story Mapping and EventStorming for domain discovery. * How can we go from EventStorming to user stories. 2019-09-3049 min
Virtual Domain-driven designCan Can business capabilities be useful in DDD with Trond Hjortelandbusiness capabilities be useful in DDD with Trond HjortelandIn this SPA conference special, we will talk with Trond Hjorteland about if business capabilities are useful in DDD. The DDD community seems to consist of mostly technical people, or at least with some sort of hands-on programming experience, both now an back when the blue book was published. The decision to put the technical patterns at the start of that book was strategic (!) in that it was meant to invite the programmers in. As a consequence of that, it seems that most know very little about the enterprises' architecture space, and if they do, it seems...2019-09-0253 min