Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The "Palchinsky Principles"

Dave Snowden, of the Cynefin framework, derives three principles from Palchinsky, a Russian engineer from early 1900's, that wanted to bring a more humanitarian approach to the communist approach to engineering.
  1. Are you actively in the market place to seek out new ideas and try new things?
  2. Do you test these ideas on a scale that is survivable should they fail?
  3. Do you seek feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along?
The above line of thinking is compatible with "agile" or "iterative" improvement approaches, where you start scaling a change implementation one phase at a time. 

See the article by Dave Snowden here.  


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