John Allspaw: Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems (https://codeascraft.com/2016/11/17/debriefing-facilitation-guide/)
01:32 – John’s Superpower: Seeing connections across domains.
05:45 – All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersection of People, Technology, and Work, and the Resilience Engineering Community
09:07 – Variety and Complexity
Requisite Variety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics))
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071392319/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0071392319&linkId=7ce8452504e8dd06d876719e2898eb3f)
The Great Courses (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/learning)
Understanding Complexity (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-complexity.html)
17:51 – Understanding Cognitive Work
25:34 – Heuristics and Biases
31:01 – Strategies for Generating Context-Specific Questions
Debriefing Facilitation Guide (Morgan Evans) (https://extfiles.etsy.com/DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf)
35:01 – Asking “Why?” Over “What?” Questions
The PreAccident Podcast (https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/)
Todd Conklin: People screw up – and it happens all the time (https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/devops-web-performance-ny-2015/public/schedule/detail/44275)
Ten challenges for making automation a “team player” in joint human-agent activity (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1363742/?reload=true)
49:33 – Analyzing and Aggregating
Rational Choice Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory)
Reflections:
Rein: How do we deal with the objective/subjective dialectic?
Janelle: The thing we focus on and pay attention to is a clear signal of what matters.
Jessica: Looking up the Knowledge Elicitation Methods.
Rein: It takes variety to match variety.
John A.: Guiding dialogue data.
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John Allspaw: Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems

01:32 – John’s Superpower: Seeing connections across domains.

05:45 – All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersection of People, Technology, and Work, and the Resilience Engineering Community

09:07 – Variety and Complexity

Requisite Variety

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer

The Great Courses

Understanding Complexity

17:51 – Understanding Cognitive Work

25:34 – Heuristics and Biases

31:01 – Strategies for Generating Context-Specific Questions

Debriefing Facilitation Guide (Morgan Evans)

35:01 – Asking “Why?” Over “What?” Questions

The PreAccident Podcast

Todd Conklin: People screw up – and it happens all the time

Ten challenges for making automation a “team player” in joint human-agent activity

49:33 – Analyzing and Aggregating

Rational Choice Theory

Reflections:

Rein: How do we deal with the objective/subjective dialectic?

Janelle: The thing we focus on and pay attention to is a clear signal of what matters.

Jessica: Looking up the Knowledge Elicitation Methods.

Rein: It takes variety to match variety.

John A.: Guiding dialogue data.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guest: John Allspaw.

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