Cynefin

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Goal: To find out which projects can and cannot be picked up with agile/lean.

1. Ask participants to generate an exhaustive list of all current and upcoming projects; one project per note.
2. Draw four quadrants and explain the basic categorization:
   1. lower right:
   2. upper right:
   3. upper left:
   4. lower left:
   5. middle:
3. Ask everyone to stick their projects in the most appropriate quadrant.
4. Explain more detail about the quadrants: Simple, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, Unordered.
   1. Simple—suited for straightforward project planning.
   2. Complicated—thorough analysis, planning, and moderate agile and lean approach; use good practices and pearl languages.
   3. Complex—suited for experiments with double- and triple-loop learning; read: agile, lean, cooking with principles, play with recipes; use pearl language when appropriate;
   4. Chaotic—suited for a flurry of short, intense experiments, followed by observation and educated guesses for new experiments.
   5. Unordered—leave alone; skip; drop.