Cat Swetel
Cat is an engineering manager with experience applying Agile and lean principles in a variety of settings: from startups to large enterprises, warehouses to web, etc. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEAM as a means of creating possibilities for a more equitable human future based on generative institutions. In her leisure time, Cat enjoys hiking, making jokes about bitcoin, and reading feminist literature.
Overcoming Inertia: Where Do We Go From Here?
The first digital camera was produced in 1975 and the patent granted in 1978 to a young inventor at...Kodak. Yes, the now-bankrupt Kodak. How could Kodak be so late in recognizing the importance of the digital camera technology they invented? It’s easier than you might think to be bound by the golden handcuffs of past success. Let’s come together to challenge ourselves to respect the past without being limited by our loyalty to it.
Let’s explore how we might develop a sensitivity to the weak signals that are likely already changing the way we do business. Let’s ask, “Where do we go from here?” And let’s be truly open to all possible answers.
We’ll split into smaller groups to make sense of what just happened.
Regroup to learn about the relationship between what you have just experienced and a key Agile value, individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
We will explore a visual example of cognitive bias, and talk about how this relates to the difference between the way that agilists see the world, and the way everyone else sees the world.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge of how our brains are hardwired to “co-opt” our beliefs.
Ways that awareness of this tendency can help us overcome our cognitive biases.
Increased ability to be open to all perspectives.
Deeper appreciation for the agile value, “individuals and interactions over processes and tools.”
The first digital camera was produced in 1975 and the patent granted in 1978 to a young inventor at...Kodak. Yes, the now-bankrupt Kodak. How could Kodak be so late in recognizing the importance of the digital camera technology they invented? It’s easier than you might think to be bound by the golden handcuffs of past success. Let’s come together to challenge ourselves to respect the past without being limited by our loyalty to it.
Let’s explore how we might develop a sensitivity to the weak signals that are likely already changing the way we do business. Let’s ask, “Where do we go from here?” And let’s be truly open to all possible answers.
We’ll split into smaller groups to make sense of what just happened.
Regroup to learn about the relationship between what you have just experienced and a key Agile value, individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
We will explore a visual example of cognitive bias, and talk about how this relates to the difference between the way that agilists see the world, and the way everyone else sees the world.
Let’s explore how we might develop a sensitivity to the weak signals that are likely already changing the way we do business. Let’s ask, “Where do we go from here?” And let’s be truly open to all possible answers.
We’ll split into smaller groups to make sense of what just happened.
Regroup to learn about the relationship between what you have just experienced and a key Agile value, individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
We will explore a visual example of cognitive bias, and talk about how this relates to the difference between the way that agilists see the world, and the way everyone else sees the world.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge of how our brains are hardwired to “co-opt” our beliefs.
Ways that awareness of this tendency can help us overcome our cognitive biases.
Increased ability to be open to all perspectives.
Deeper appreciation for the agile value, “individuals and interactions over processes and tools.”
Ways that awareness of this tendency can help us overcome our cognitive biases.
Increased ability to be open to all perspectives.
Deeper appreciation for the agile value, “individuals and interactions over processes and tools.”