Cynefin Dynamics “Blue Loop”: Explore/Exploit Stable

• Agile is movement on a “blue loop” between the Complicated and Complex domain
• Scrum is located in the Liminal transitional zone
  • The essence of Scrum is to do things in shorter cycles or sprints, allow more self-organisation in terms of time allocation and managing backlog

Lean project situation

• It’s possible that Uncertainty will emerge in your Lean project
  • Example is an unanticipated change in client or project sponsor
• What would you do? Carry on in the Complicated domain assuming nothing has changed?
• Probably not. I suspect you’ll move into the Complex domain to probe and understand what’s happened
• You talk to people and gather Storytelling / Narrative data to make sense of possible adjustments
• Then bring that info back to the Complicated domain to implement
• This is the Cynefin Dynamics Blue loop