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How cognitive biases and ranking can
foster an ineffective architecture and
design
Kenny Baas-Schwegler & Evelyn van Kelle
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Millar
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Complexity:
When things go bad, endure and observe
what you can change, and probe!
don’t go chasing a happy to-be situation
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We’re dealing with complex
adaptive socio-technical
systems.
Those 3 aspects impact
each other.
Balance is key
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Open office space to improve communication
Joe Wright: The good, the bad, the open-plan: Creating environments for collaborative knowledge work - https://vimeo.com/374629143
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If you design a software system without
boundaries or the wrong boundaries, because
you did not involve the people working on it
you just designed an open office space
for software teams.
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
“If the architecture of the system
and the architecture of the organization are at
odds,
the architecture of the organization wins”
—Ruth Malan
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Creating a shared sense of reality
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Visual and Collaborative modelling is a
practice of using requirement analysis and
modelling techniques to create a shared
understanding.
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
technical architect
Socio-technical architect
(A role, not a function!)
(and of course owned by a person or group)
@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Ensuring flow in meetings
How to make sure everyone said what has to be said?
How can we create and include new insights?
Who decides on the architecture?
How to get everyone on board on the decision?
Photo
by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
Media
on
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@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Ensuring flow in meetings
How to make sure everyone said what has to be said?
Photo
by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
Media
on
Unsplash
@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Ranking
How cognitive biases and ranking can foster an ineffective architecture and design
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Symbolic violence
How cognitive biases and ranking can foster an ineffective architecture and design
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
So what?
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Shadow IT
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Deep Democracy the lewis method
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WISNU
HADI
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Every autocratic decision, supressess knowledge
and wisdom and creates resistance.
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
foto:
Hideta
Nagai)
credit:
Corporate
tribe
book
by
Danielle
Braun,
Jitske
Kramer
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@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
foto:
Hideta
Nagai)
credit:
Corporate
tribe
book
by
Danielle
Braun,
Jitske
Kramer
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to
be insane by those who could not hear the music”
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by
Neil
Thomas
on
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How to make sure everyone said what has
to be said?
Own, play and share your rank
@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Ensuring flow in meetings
How can we create and include new insights?
Photo
by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
Media
on
Unsplash
@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Cognitive bias
How cognitive biases and ranking can foster an ineffective architecture and design
How cognitive biases and ranking can foster an ineffective architecture and design
How cognitive biases and ranking can foster an ineffective architecture and design
@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Ensuring flow in meetings
How to get everyone on board on the decision?
Who decides on the architecture?
Photo
by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
Media
on
Unsplash
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
https://www.today.com/home/toilet-paper-over-or-under-debate-resolved-1891-patent-t9776
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Accurate vs Completeness
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Accurate vs Completeness
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
https://twitter.com/RonJeffries/status/1128329696012378114
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Discussion Dialogue
Actions, thinking fast Insights, thinking slow
Convince, take a stand Understanding, listen
Think against other (yes, but..) Think together with others (Yes, and…)
Answer are central The questions are central
Attack and defence Investigate and check
Opinions and arguments Principles, values and norms
Judgement postpone judgment
Finding solutions find the underlying reason
Risk: false consensus, powerplay Risk: responsible abstraction, woolly
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Gak
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“Peace is not the absence of conflict.
Conflict are the status quo, it is how you manage
them is what makes peace.”
- Bart Brandsma
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“We must be able to identify all the parts in a
system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a
group, even those we do not like or believe to be
useless, must be present and supported.”
- Arnold Mindell
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by
Kevin
Erdvig
on
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credit:
Corporate
Tribe
by
Danielle
Braun,
Jitske
Kramer
Meetings as campfires
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credit:
human
dimensions
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1. Gain all views
2. Make it safe to to say alternative views
3. Spread the why
----- VOTE ----
4. Ask: What would it take for you to go along?
Deep Democracy the lewis method steps
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1. Idea: You have an idea, but nothing is certain
2. Suggestion: You have a clear intention, but other
insights are more than welcome
3. Proposal: You have a concretely worked out
proposal. Only serious objections can influence
the decision
4. Command: Decision is made, what does it take for
you to go along?
How much space do you give?
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by
Tamara
Gak
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Who decides on the architecture?
How to get everyone on board on the decision?
Who to invite?
Use the Deep Democracy the lewis method steps.
Be clear on how much power people have on decision making.
Photo
by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
Media
on
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@EelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
@EvelynvanKelle @kenny_baas
Photo
by
Tamara
Gak
on
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Ensuring flow in meetings
Create awareness of people their ranks in the group
Own, play and share your rank
Be aware and make explicit the biases at play
Use Deep Democracy the lewis method in your decision making
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by
Mike
Lewis
HeadSmart
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on
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@kenny_baas
#CatTax
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Leave the judging to cats.

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