Category: Organizing
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Analysis of the CMM, PSP, and TSP
This post is part of my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore the history and key assumptions of Watts Humphrey’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM)®,1 Personal Software Process (PSP)SM,2 and Team Software Process (TSP)SM.3 The analysis is summarized here. Background My first encounter with…
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Analysis of organizing orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The series is inspired by David Bohm’s and F. David Peat’s notion of “the order between and beyond.”1 The purpose of this post is to summarize the analysis. I will add to this post over time. Background First, a…
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Overview of organizing orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The series is inspired by David Bohm’s and F. David Peat’s notion of “the order between and beyond”.1 I wrote in the 1st post that organizing “beyond” is a “deeper order” of organizing which transcends the compromises in “existing…
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Organizing questions
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The series is inspired by David Bohm’s and F. David Peat’s notion of “the order between and beyond”.1 Bohm and Peat write that “order influences perception, communication, and action”2 and that a change in order involves “a major perceptual…
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Organizing in between and beyond
This is the first post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The last chapter in Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat is about “the order between and beyond”.1 Bohm and Peat write that most attempts to find order, say a new theory, involve searching…
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Organizing between and beyond posts
This is a series of posts on organizing “between and beyond.” The series is an ongoing inquiry into a deeper “generative order” for organizing. It’s a search for a major shift in how we perceive and organize work. Here are the posts sorted based on topic. What is life? Book Review: Science, Order, and Creativity…
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Organizing between and beyond posts (sorted)
This is a series of posts on organizing “between and beyond.” The series is an ongoing inquiry into a deeper “generative order” for organizing. It’s a search for a major shift in how we perceive and organize work. Here are the posts sorted chronologically. Introduction Organizing in between and beyond Organizing questions Overview Overview of…
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What is life?
Science, Order, and Creativity by Bohm & Peat This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat is a very interesting book which I warmly recommend! Here is my book review. The chapter on “What is order?”1 is…
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Is sociocracy agile?
Decision Making Systems Matter is an interesting article by Pieter van der Meché, Jens Coldewey, and Hendrik Esser, with Anders Ivarsson as additional contributor. The article is funded by the Agile Alliance and is a Supporting Agile Adoption publication. The authors describe how combining “Agile with ideas from Sociocracy provides … a way to create…