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Tempo, Maneuverability, InitiativeMichael T. Nygard - Cognitect
Michael T. Nygard✤ Developer
✤ Operator
✤ Systems Thinker
✤ Author
@mtnygardwww.michaelnygard.com
A Story of Despair and Hope
“Web Site”
When in doubt,
biopsy something.
Fast feedback
Fast feedback ?
Pilot-Induced Oscillation(PIO)
Noise Amplification
Maneuverability
John Boyd
✤ Fighter pilot✤ Air combat
instructor✤ Military theorist
Kinetic to potentialPotential to kinetic
Energy-Maneuverability (EM)
Kinetic ⟷ Potential
Gain and Shed Momentum
Rapidly Change Maneuvers
Control tempo
Take initiative
Send ambiguous signals
Maneuver Warfare
Complex Systems &Self-organized Criticality
Avalanche Models
Catastrophe Manifolds
Earthquake Distributions
Non-linear, but also
undirected
How to cause nonlinear response
in a direction we like?
Lessons From Maneuver Warfare
Apply Disposability
✤ Infrastructure
✤ Code
✤ Dependencies
✤ Teams?
Set the tempo
Obscure your ultimate objective
Defer commitment
Tempo
Control tempo
Take initiative
Send ambiguous signals
“From now on, I control the tempo.”
Tempo is emergent.
Execution at all Levels
Horizontal and Vertical Integrity
Team Scale
✤ Safety through tools✤ Agile development✤ Integrated value chain
Group Scale
✤ Bounded context✤ Ubiquitous language✤ Product teams✤ Intent
Org Scale
✤ Discoverability✤ Temporary Assignments
Vertical Integration:
Intent
Operations Order - SMEAC
✤Situation✤Mission✤Execution✤Administration (or Sustainment)✤Command
Initiative
Sente
✤ Amazon creates AWS✤ Takes sente versus hosting providers
Sente
✤ Uber enters Thailand, undercuts tuk-tuks and cabs (sente)✤ Taxi drivers in Thailand convince gov’t to ban
Uber (gote, seizing sente)
Not Sente
✤ Uber in London. (sente)✤ Black cab drivers protest, disrupt traffic.
✤ Not sente!✤ Uber not compelled to respond.
Combine Initiative (sente) + Tempo
✤ Take initiative✤ Keep pressing advantage✤ Advance faster than opponent can catch up
Tempo, Maneuverability, Initiative
Michael T. NygardThank You!
Want the slides?Email [email protected], Subject: “tempo”
@mtnygardwww.michaelnygard.com
