redefining collaboration norms as your company grows

DevOpsDays Boston 2016 Keynote. Discusses identity at work, more collaboration is not always better, useful abstractions, using stories to discover experiences at work.

The video of this talk is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHig98EuWsc

Transcript

1. REDEFINING
   COLLABORATION NORMS
   AS YOUR COMPANY GROWS
   Elliot Murphy @sstatik elliot@kindlyops.com
   

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2. A STORY
   

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3. SOME IDEAS
   Dangers of the silo metaphor
   Multiple identities, identity resilience
   work groups, team based organizations
   using stories to discover which abstractions are working
   

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4. CYNEFIN
   

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5. PARTICIPATORY NARRATIVE
   INQUIRY
   http://workingwithstories.org
   

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6. READING LIST
   • Strategic Networks: Learning to Compete http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
   WileyTitle/productCd-1405135859,subjectCd-BA40.html
   • Bramble Bushes in a Thicket http://old.cognitive-edge.com/wp-content/
   uploads/2006/10/52-Bramble-Bushes-in-a-Thicket-1.pdf
   • Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development https://
   www.amazon.com/Organizational-Patterns-Agile-Software-Development/dp/
   0131467409
   • http://www.workingwithstories.org/ Cynthia Kurtz
   • Food Fight Show interview with Dave Snowden http://foodfightshow.org/
   2015/01/complexity-theory-and-cynefin.html
   

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7. LETS GO TELL SOME STORIES
   Elliot Murphy @sstatik elliot@kindlyops.com
   

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