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About the Episode
This was a much anticipated conversation and it did not disappoint. It is filled with many insights that should support those who are making meaning and creating value together in their organizations.
Be pleasantly surprised with the amount of beautiful metaphors that were used during this conversation to help describe what makes organizations and the performance of organizing special. We delved into the ideas of how dancing, playing music and weaving can help us find new perspectives, which will enable us to re-focus our attention on the essence of good collaboration and lead to the creation of resilient complex organizations.
The theme of the interconnectedness of our social practices, teams and systems was amplified in this episode and points to the need for a wholistic approach to investing energy, time and funds across the entire organization.
“The performance is what happens in between the notes.”
This is one of the gems that came out of this conversation and describes the essentiality of the emotional, embodied and authentic aspects of performance.
As Provocation:
What is “Scrumality”?
What is the essence of agile organizing?
We think it is, that what happens in between the rules.
The question is can we name those things and how do we practice them?
There is a general excitement at DOTM about the work that Jabe is currently doing, including the important ideas of “Commoning”, which was a topice that was only shortly addressed in this episode. We encourage you to continuing exploring his work.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we have.
Sincerely,
Joshua, Andreas, Chris, Markus, Franziska
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About Jabe Bloom
Jabe Bloom is a doctoral student in transition design at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His academic studies give him a strong foundation in the theory of organizational design. In the praxis, he has worked for over 20 years in software companies focusing his attention on connecting creative, ideation processes with software engineering and operational excellence. He is currently working at the global Transformation office for Red Hat. He is a skilled orator and teacher, who is able to ground the theory in metaphor and practical examples.
Episode Dictionary
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Maturity Mapping
- Combining Wardley Mapping, Social Practice Theory and Cynefin to mapp the practices inside of an organization.
Link
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TDD Test Driven Development
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WIP(Work In Progress) in Kanban
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Social Practice Theory
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Socio-Technical Systems Theory
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Commoning
Our Favorite Content (links) from Jabe
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ReCommoning: Transitioning Organisations with Jabe Bloom
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“Whole Work: Sociotechnicity & DevOps | Jabe Bloomk”
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“ReCommoning Communities Dimeji Onafuwa (Microsoft) Jabe Bloom (Red Hat) OpenShift Commons Gathering”
Music
About Forró
Brazilian Dance and Music made and danced to by beautiful, happy people.
Recommended Songs from Jabe
- Rollingstones: “You can’t always get what you want”
Our Musical Contributions
- Dona Mariquinha: “A Barca”
- Deepak Chopra: “Nothing Lasts Forever”
- Jefferson Airplane: “White Rabbit” (Remix Dettman & Mounsey)
Our Playlist can be found at Spotify:
open.spotify.com/dailyofthemonth-musical-intention