We’ve all heard this sort of thing before — “I can’t swim 800m until I get fit enough!” or “we aren’t ready for kids/pets/whatever”. This really boils down to “I can’t change until I am ready”. Organizations are just the same. The need for an organization to embrace change is…

There’s a full page Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where our two heroes are sledding down a hill. Calvin in typical fashion says “Let’s try this path over here!” — Hobbes can’t see a path and responds as such. Calvin, steering, says that they can make a path. …

The phenomenon of Dead Water is well known to sailors who travel through regions of mixed salinity. First noted by Nansen, a ship will lose way and be unable to travel forward. …

I’m sure there’s millions of people out there who will tell you that running an Ironman changed their life. I’m not one of them. Well — I am, but not in that evangelical gung-ho must recruit you way. …

Edit: John Allspaw pointed out that this isn’t a post about the field of Resilience Engineering. I have added links at the bottom of the post to a lot of links about the field of Resilience Engineering. …

It’s not uncommon to say that Agile has let us down. Uncle Bob has been talking about this for at least 2 years. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc). Andy Hunt has been saying it for more than 5 years, (the end of agile) and he’s one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto. But…