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At the heart of an effective product development flow are a few central principles that make it easier to assess how specific goals can be achieved and how they need to be adapted to the culture and environment of the company. Don Reinertsen has compiled the most important heuristics as nine rules. Many of these heuristics can be found in Kanban and SAFe.

Conway’s law originally comes from software development, but can be intuitively applied to many other product developments. It is based on the idea that interpersonal communication is necessary to define the interfaces between separate modules. Therefore, the communication structures of organizations have a major influence on the structure of these interfaces.

The BAPO model describes four aspects of a development activity and also suggests a sequence for processing them. It is also interesting that companies are often not BAPO, but OPAB.

The concepts of VUCA and BANI describe the challenges organizations face in today’s complex environments, but they address slightly different dimensions of uncertainty and complexity. BANI is not a replacement for VUCA, it describes how life feels in a typical VUCA environment.

The Viable System Model is a powerful tool for diagnosing, designing, and managing organizations in complex environments. Its applications improve organizational adaptability, resilience, and overall functionality across a wide range of contexts. There is a lot of practical experience in organizations of every type. There is also solid academic evidence of the impact of the VSM.

Exaptation is a concept in evolutionary biology that describes how a trait or feature originally evolved for one purpose can be repurposed or co-opted for a different function over time. This process plays a significant role in understanding how complex traits and structures develop in organisms.

The core Wardley Mapping may be the development of a concrete strategy, the “strategic gameplay”. or “stratagems”.

Strategies that would work in predictable environments like the oil industry have virtually no chance of working in the far less predictable and less entrenched arena of Internet software.

The sensemaking framework: Two short videos as an overview of Cynefin.

Sensemaking is the process by which people give meaning to their experiences and make sense of complex or ambiguous situations. It is a fundamental cognitive and social activity that helps individuals and organizations understand, interpret, and act in their environments.