I am grieving that officials & civil servants from U.S. government aren’t active participants in #fwd50 in person & online. I may be missing folks who are streaming & chatting on the @fwd50conf platform, so caveat this, but public timelines are empty. Feels like a missed chance.
Talks at #FWD50 are really making me think we need to move towards a product management model, with empowered, multidisciplinary service teams.
I'm taking the opportunity to reshare a little thing I had wrote that briefly touched on this (and what we can do in the meantime, in the context of the GC web presence):
https://www.davidpepin.ca/billets/maintain-improve-transform/
Loving the complexity theme this morning at #fwd50 trying to solve complex problems with approaches that work with complicated problems does not work with complex issues according to @tomski. Every public servant, especially leaders should know the difference. The key is the feedback loop.
Amy Kirtay talking about the work in British Columbia on their Digital Code of Practice and especially the work they've been doing to create content to support the principles to show the *how* and how they tried to work in the open to create the code of practice - 😍 #fwd50
"To increase state capacity and to build software together." Tamara Srzentić on forming the Rebel Alliance collaboration between countries #fwd50 @fwd50
I do think (and I've said it before) that it all needs a refresh - or at least a formal reflection. It has been a decade plus and there is too much dogma now. We (and I'm part of the problem) failed to be agile about it all - we missed out on the interate, iterate, iterate element! #fwd50
I have to actually work today so I'll be listening to #fwd50 but not posting as much ;)
My schedule today at #FWD50
Tom - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1191/the-radical-how
Martha - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1193/trust-in-government-goes-both-ways
Canada's CIO - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1196/canadas-digital-ambition-a-conversation-with-catherine-luelo
Andrew, Amy & Elizabeth - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1199/public-digital-takeover-digital-service-standards
Hillary & gang - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1205/regional-digital-government-summit-takeover
Aaron & crew - https://www.fwd50.com/session/1211/beeck-center-takeover-open-source-government-services-the-promise-and-the-realities
Tom Loosemore said today, “Luck plays an important part in everyone’s lives.” And I think that should be recognized and talked about more. Right place at the right time. #smallthoughts #fwd50
I honestly had never heard the complicated/complex split - complex systems can't be fully known in the way that complicated systems can.