Author Archives: nynke

Do you wish to be recognized for a great innovation that helps the world?

Then do not have MDD (model and routine driven development) drive your business. The intention of MDD is to make software work routine. It is a focus on the tools rather than on people. Allow me to burst the bubble that that will lead to higher quality of anything in the world: Quality is not improved primarily by adherence to what was once named IBM’s Process Grid (G.M. Weinberg, SQM part I):

• process methodologies
• tools
• change control
• data gathering
• communication and use of data
• goal setting
• quality focus
• customer focus
• technical awareness

All of these items are important, but let us not have our entire businesses and ventures be driven only by these, because the set suffers from a major blind spot. One that the entire IT industry suffers from: not enough relentless reflection, not enough Walking Talk and Talking Walk. By all means let us add some of the other drivers, and shift our focus to meta patterns. We know how to

1. make the extraordinary ordinary by better management of software and eliminating (software) disasters
2. efficiency by improving the orderliness of our business and automation of our own work
3. instantly transfer knowledge by turning failures in successes for the future, and sharing such experientially built up knowledge with others in our networks. We talk walk.

We are prepared to be surprised. It is not in the problems we encounter, it is in how we can cope with encountered problems within the 20% law of chance. When we face the unexpected, we may feel uneasy, but we do not let such distractions get in the way of problem solving and creation. We fearlessly venture forward into the unknowable. May MDD be only 20% of our drivers and not our main driver, and may that 20% serve our leadership. We are star dancers with our own captains on board.

The fourth universal law states that all energy follows a pattern from 0 to 9; all energy starts at 0, moves outward 9 times, and then folds back in on itself.

We wish to improve matters for everyone, without blocking seven generations down the line. Now that I call Ambition.