Ole Andreas Rydland

Anti-Patterns from Systems Thinking - Suboptimization

One of the things I learnt from the "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" book by Donella Meadows is a thing called suboptimization. I choose to call this an anti-pattern as it's a behavior you can frequently observe in systems, and one I think more people should be aware

On human intuition, codifying knowledge and resilience

Coming out of Dave Snowden's 2 day workshop on Complexity-Based Design Thinking at DDDEurope 2019, it's easy to get many thoughts spinning in your head, and it definitely takes time to reflect on the dense knowlegde taken in over just 2 days. One thing that stuck with me, which has

devops

Sensemaking

After learning about the Cynefin Framework at the DDDEurope conference earlier this year, it's been interesting to utilize the framework to try and make sense of observations at work. I've long been very interested in the DevOps movement (like most developers I guess), but I've been frustrated with: Having a

Cognitive biases in software design - The IKEA effect

Disclaimer: This is actually not based on science, just personal observation and opinion. Having worked in a large organization for almost 4 years now, I've (naturally) observed a lot of office and organization politics, both from technical people (developers, architects, etc) and people with a more business-oriented background. A recurring