It is the case that the complexity means that we have to start zooming in and zooming out to understand how the new thing we do or how we change, is a change that must fit into the whole, so that it does not intersect or create problems for anyone elsewhere in the whole (system).
Here’s an important sentence: “The collective behavior of complex systems often emerges from the interactions between their components and cannot be understood by simply examining the components in isolation.”
So what does this mean?
Because, above all, Essential Agile becomes very important. We have to understand how we have to work and that complexity is very difficult to handle on our own. Hence we have to cooperate. Therefore, there must be a basis for cooperation to work in an organization.
We must create a safe environment where we accept each other as we are and help each other to change behaviors so that everything will be better.
Everything you say? Yes, I say everything đ
Even a small part has a place in the whole and it should fit in. Just something like that the customers are happier the happier the employees in an organization are, is a similar thing. It is part of the whole. People are complex, IT systems are complex and that makes the whole Digitization complex!
If I change a piece of software, it has consequences not only in the digital world but also in the people who use it.
This means that we can no longer accept working in our own silos, because what we do affects many or even everyone around us. We need to start collaborating on the whole. Then it is important to be able to zoom in and zoom out, so that what you do does not disturb others in the organization, but works/supports the whole in a good way.
Knowing how to influence things around you is usually not just something you can think of on your own, but you have to try it in reality. Therefore, it is better to start doing than to wait for 2 years until an investigation is completed. There is so much happening all the time that affects planning and therefore it is better to always do things in the present! You make a lot of small steps! Small steps can fail without causing it in any dramatic way. We can make small mistakes and the important thing then is that we learn without delay.
This is one of the reasons why Essential Agile exists and is so important that everyone understands and uses Agile methodology in an organization.
We are taking the subject further in small steps just as we try to teach others, so we will discuss the subject more than this. The important thing before the next step is that we agree on what I have described here!