The Cynefin framework - Complicated, Complexity, Chaos | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 3

To keep you focused on the big picture, Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer describe problems as embodying three types of complexity:

• Dynamic Complexity. Where cause and effect are distant in time and space. When it is high, you need to take a systems approach that deals with all the interdependencies. When it is low, you can do a piece by piece approach

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As per the Cynefin framework introduced in Chapter 0, in the “Clear” and “Complicated” quadrants work is predictable and a fixed, standard approach to mitigating risks may be appropriate. However, “Complex” quadrant product development is unique. It has not been done before, either at all or in context, and there are unknown-unknowns. There is a ne

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Complicated problems have a solution, and the solution can often be found by breaking the complicated portions into smaller pieces.

And complicated problems often have an emotional component, because there are parts of the problem we don’t want to look at closely, or deal with personally.

If you’re lucky enough to be handed a complicated problem, kn... See more