A Game of Patterns

Session type:

Keynote

Presented by:

Tiani Jones

Partner, The Ready

Session time:

28 Sep 09:30 — 10:30

Session duration:

60 minutes

About the session

What does it mean for an organisation (system) to exhibit behaviours and patterns(or anti-patterns)? How does this connect to practices?

After defining the behaviours-patterns-practices relationship, we will consider five base patterns of agility and some other complexity-informed ideas for socio-technical systems.

Be prepared to start thinking about the patterns in your organisation in a whole new light.

About the speaker(s)

Tiani Jones

Tiani has spent over 20 years in Engineering and Technology. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, she’s knowledgeable in software development, the Kanban Method, agile, and Lean UX from domains including mobile applications, IT consulting, flight simulation, aerospace, software localisation, and consumer electronics.

Her experience is centred on innovation through experiments that inform product design and XP technical practices. Her special interests are Cynefin/Complexity, ToC, and flow metrics.

She co-developed, with Jabe Bloom & Michael Woodley, a framework for socio-technical systems transition based on observability of work systems. Their work was based on praxis, the unified integration of theory in practice to create new knowledge and new ways of working for long-term transformation.

When not reading white papers on exogenous and endogenous uncertainties, Tiani enjoys weightlifting, languages, fashion, and art. She speaks French fluently and basic Spanish and Arabic. She’s a dual US/UK citizen.

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