Epiphany & Apophany • Liz Keogh • YOW! 2022

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2022. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Liz Keogh - Core Member of the BDD Community, Well-known Blogger, Lean & Agile Consultant @lunivore RESOURCES http://lizkeogh.com https://twitter.com/lunivore https://github.com/lunivore https://linkedin.com/in/liz-keogh-6240071 ABSTRACT Human beings have an astounding ability to see patterns and apply them in new contexts...but how often do we see patterns that don't truly exist, and what happens when those patterns are misapplied? In a complex domain it's only in retrospect that we can understand how outcomes emerged, and we don't get much more complex than human systems. In this session, we look at our confirmation biases and how they might be preventing us from creating change, or enabling us to move forward in uncertainty. When we don't know what's going to work, how can we avoid our tendency towards root cause analysis? How can we find out what might work if we tried it? And how can we ensure it's safe to fail? I'll use some facts about elephants to show what happens when we assume we get it, fixing our beliefs and then our processes in place, and introduce some techniques to help avoid that tendency while enabling us to move forward in uncertainty. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 04:20 Ladder of inference 07:53 Biases 09:34 Innovation cycle 11:31 Cynefin 19:43 Wardley Maps 23:49 Cynefin continued 28:30 Escaping analysis paralysis 30:51 Coherence 32:08 Correlated in retrospect 34:30 Sensemaker 40:11 Takeaways 41:50 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowlondon.com/2022/sessions/2239 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps • https://learnwardleymapping.com/book Erik Schön • The Art Of Strategy • https://amzn.to/2UPzXPa Dave Snowden, Sonja Blignaut & Zhen Goh • Cynefin • https://amzn.to/3EhpeDN Jennifer Garvey Berger & Keith Johnston • Simple Habits for Complex Times • https://amzn.to/3P5KfX4 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Cynefin #WardleyMaps #Epiphany #Apophany #Pareidolia #Bias #ConfirmationBias #Complexity #InnovationCycle #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #LizKeogh #Lunivore Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1