A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context.[1][2] For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular firm's strategy or a broader market; similarly, case studies in politics can range from a narrow happening over time (e.g., a specific political campaign) to an enormous undertaking (e.g., a world war). Generally, a case study can highlight nearly any individual, group, organization, event, belief system, or action. A case study does not necessarily have to be one observation (N=1), but may include many observations (one or multiple individuals and entities across multiple time periods, all within the same case study).[3][4][5][6] Research projects involving numerous cases are frequently called cross-case research, whereas a study of a single case is called within-case research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study (more)

newer name for Intermediate Objectives Map (more)

Causal Decision Diagram: see (more)

Uncertainty Project on Causal Decision Diagrams (CDD). (more)

Uncertainty Project: Exploring Causality and Complexity in Strategy. The idea of causality matters greatly, though, since as we apply our agency (as individuals, as organizations, and businesses) to take action, we base our choices on where we believe we can cause good things to happen. (more)

career path, often framed like a planned/straight line

John Cutler: Octopus Careers & Throwaway Stickies with Chris Butler. Chris embraces the mess like few people I’ve met. Defying categorization in his career path, inventing models and techniques for collaboration and sense-making, he’s well versed in engineering, design and product, and figuring out how to challenge the status quo in big companies. (more)

John Cutler: Sociotechnical Maestros with Gene Kim. I recently finished reading Gene's latest book Wiring the Winning Organization which he co-wrote with Steven Spear. The themes of slowification, simplification, and amplification have already started to seep into my day-to-day conversations. The book is filled with case studys, but also creative metaphors like Gene and Steven moving a couch, which is where our chat starts. (more)

The management by wandering around (MBWA), also management by walking around,[1] refers to a style of business management which involves managers wandering around, in an unstructured manner, through their workplace(s) at random, to check with employees, equipment, or on the status of ongoing work.[1] The emphasis is on the word wandering as an unplanned movement within a workplace, rather than a plan where employees expect a visit from managers at more systematic, pre-approved or scheduled times... The origin of the term has been traced to executives at Hewlett-Packard whose management practices involved walking around the facility... The management consultants Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman used the term in their 1982 book In Search of Excellence.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_wandering_around (more)

see Management By Walking Around

Toyota Production System: Lean Manufacturing

AutoMobile maker associated with Lean Manufacturing: Toyota Production System/TPS (more)

Bundle of related links/thoughts I need to flesh out... (more)

Just re/discovered the Map Of The Complexity Sciences - ooh it's a clickable image-map. By Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits (more)

Alistair Cockburn idea of recognizing that different Projects have different constraints, and therefore each needs it own methodology/process. (more)

ebook from John Cutler/Dotwork to help product leaders operationalize the product operating model in their unique context. https://www.dotwork.com/product-operating-model (more)

In Agile Product Development, the Product Team is key: need Agility, Context, and Team Agency (more)

Martin Cagan framing of agile product development process (actually he says "it's a conceptual model, not a process"); typically requires transformation, see (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined, POM Starter Pack; cf Product-Led

The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002,[1] that describes three notably offensive but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.[2][3][4][5] Each of these personality types is called dark because each is considered to contain malevolent qualities. All three dark triad traits are conceptually distinct although empirical evidence shows them to be overlapping. They are associated with a callous–manipulative interpersonal style.[9] (more)

person with narcissism