For the past year, I’ve been helping one of my clients with company wide adoption of their enterprise architecture. Their pursuit of this has been long, and filled with challenges. So far, they’ve approached it by utilizing external advisors, communicating rules through the chain of command, facilitating consensus decision making, project manager driven transformations, and creating new lead roles oriented around architecture. Because previous attempts had failed, we realized that the disposition of the system was not conducive to the change they were hoping to make. But it was also not well understood. So as an alternative to conventional wisdom, we Estuarine Mapped adoption of enterprise architecture.  Despite the training…

A few weeks ago, I received the Hexi Base Kit V2 from The Cynefin Company. It features 120 Hexis, and contains core Cynefin and SenseMaker methods. Last week, I used it with Johan Axelson, Johan Sjöström, and Christian Fredrikson and I wanted to share our experiences with it. I want to mention, as I think is important, that we are all familiar with the Cynefin frameworks, both in theory and application. We approached the exercise from two perspectives: Participants: We aimed to explore and “solve” public transportation issues. Facilitators: We took pauses to reflect on what we would do as facilitators if we saw groups behave as us. First challenge…