6/15 @6pm - "How to Build a Learning Organization" by Janelle Klein
Janelle Klein
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Senge wrote “The Fifth Discipline”, considered the seminal text for how to build a Learning Organization. With obvious benefits, and the recipe needed for success, why don't we see more Learning Organizations? That was twenty-five years ago!
Let's dust off these old ideas in light of all the discoveries we've made in the software industry over the last decade with Agile, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, and Idea Flow. Rather than try to solve generalized organizational problems, let's talk about how to build a Learning Organization in the context of software development.
First, what are the key obstacles to success?
The invisible pain on our software projects consumes 30, 50, even 90% of our development capacity, and there's so many problems, we don't know what to fix.
The massive communication problems between the management world and the development world results in relentless business pressure, ignorant decisions, and a continuous cycle of rewrites.
How do we overcome these obstacles?
"Open Mastery Learning Framework" is a top-to-bottom data-driven learning framework specifically designed to overcome these challenges. It’s visibility (Idea Flow) + practical science (Lean Startup) that scales across the company’s software supply chain (Lean Manufacturing) to help everyone start working together, and learning together to optimize the whole.
It's a blueprint for how to build a Learning Organization.
Open Mastery Learning Framework is not intended to be "the solution", but rather a starting point to a much needed conversation in our industry. We start with plan A. We iterate to a plan that works. We update the blueprints along the way.
Open Mastery is about learning our way there, together.
We'll officially kickoff "Open Mastery Austin" at the close of this meet up, with two lunch-time discussion groups for developers and leaders, and an "open source roadmap" for learning how to learn together.
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