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Cynefin and Its Domains

Learn about Cynefin, a framework for understanding uncertainty and complexity.

ABOUT THIS CHAPTER   Software projects have long struggled with the question of how to deal with complexity, which has been the source of many challenges, including low quality, late projects, and outright failure.

This chapter presents a framework for understanding uncertainty and complexity known as Cynefin. It describes how Cynefin applies to Sequential and Agile software problems. The chapter then presents a model for making decisions in the face of uncertainty and complexity known as OODA. It describes cases in which OODA decision making provides advantages over the typical Sequential decision-making approaches. ...

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