Cynefin Framework
Cynefin-Framework-Diagram-for-Problem-Solving
Framework
Created by David Snowen
Cognitive edge
Welsh word that means HABITAT or PLACE
Means place of your multiple belongings
aware of all the influences
It is a sens making model
Oppose to a categorization Model
Data precedes the framework
Clsic 2x2 matrix
The Framework precedes the data
Good for explotation (not good for exploration)
better for exploration
Structure
Ordered systems
Simple
Complicated
Complex systems
Chaotic systems
Disorder systems
Simple Domain
Relationship between cause & effect exists
Predictable & repeatable
DEcision model (sense - categorize - respond)
Apply best practices
Complicated domain
Rel: Cause & effect
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Not self evident
requires Expertise
DEcision model: sense analyse respond
Experts
Apply GOOD practices
Different from BEST
Many practices are legitimate
Complex Domain
Cause & effect only obvious in hindsight
Light constraints
Probe sense respond
Amplify responses if experiment works
Dampening
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Conduct experiments not fail safe design
EMERGENT practices
They are unique or blend of Good & best
Chaotic environment
Space for innovation
If we are accidentally
First mission is to stabilize
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DEcision model
Act - sense -respond
All practices are NOVEL
LEsson
Different domains different tools
no one size fits all
Disorder
not Knowing which of the domains you are
you tend to adapt the environment you are more familiar with
Normally people are in this stage
Cynefin invites into making a judgement call
Limit between simple and chaotic
you start to oversimplify the world
believe that past success makes you invulnerable
you can fall over the edge in a Crisis
Cynefin
It is a decision framework
Analytical framework
For decision, IT desing
Cause and effects
Appropriate method for appropriate domain