Pretty provocative title to this post 🙂 but it sometimes seems like these to things cannot fit together.
Have a look at Jim Highsmith post Balancing Adaptivity and Predictability for interesting thought about the topic:
In presentations I often ask the question, “How many of you have been on Agile teams and were asked to be agile, adaptive, flexible—but also asked to conform to the plan?” Mostly I get snickers and mild laughter at the question because most have experienced it. – continue
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June 21, 2011 at 12:10 am
Luca
With some inspiration from S.Kauffman, what Jim High Smith says, if I got it right, is that:
One way is to strive to explain and predict with the aim to anticipate the future.
Another way is to strive *also* to interpret the present and react to events with the aim to adapt and invent the future.
The paradox here is that the effort to *only* predict the future make it harder to control it. While the effort to also recognize and interpret the present reality and adapt to it enable us to control the future by inventing it
A quote from Donella H. Meadows: We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them.