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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Lao Tsu

Peter Checkland, one of our pre-eminent systems thinkers, has something he calls the Rich Picture, which is part of his Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).

A Rich Picture is to get a fuller view of a "problem situation," including what people are thinking and feeling, their particular perspectives on things beyond just the "hard facts."

Here is an example of a good Rich Picture.


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I don't know if I mentioned this yet, but we wanted to have our illustrations have a "comic book" type of feel to them.

Hong and I found an illustrator named Megan Corby who will be doing that work for us. She gave us an initial rough sketch of some of our "characters" who will appear throughout the book.

I'll post several of the illustrations as Megan completes them to give you a feel of the finished work.

What do you think?

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Well, the long, long process of writing the initial draft is completed. And it's a mess, if I say so myself.

My policy while writing was to use the manuscript to contain the sections that I was considering putting in the book, as well as any notes along the way of ideas I had while trying to get to sleep, or conversations with Hong, or random thoughts throughout the day.

Plus, each chapter got organized and reorganized without actually deleting anything. (Didn't want to lose that idea, y'know?… Continue

I drew this while I was cooking dinner tonight to illustrate how I think Agile in the Bloodstream is different than most of Agile 1.0 being done today.

Your thoughts please.

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