Cards
- In control theory this is the sensor — without measuring actual state, the loop is blind. CA's need…
- Dead band is the range through which an input may vary without initiating an observable change in…
- This principle is why management has been shortening cycles for decades — from annual reviews to…
- The cycle of hypothesis → action → feedback → adjust is what Scrum calls empirical process control:…
- Taleb formalized this as convex tinkering: small errors with large potential gains. You don't need…
- The cycle of hypothesis → action → feedback → adjust applies to agents, products, companies, and…
- Today you need to re-strategize every few hours. A weekly retrospective is already too slow.
- Cycle frequency matters more than step quality. The more iterations you run, the higher the chance…
- Nobody knows the right answer upfront. So reduce everything to cycles: hypothesis → minimal action…
- In complex systems, tinkering — trial and error with small mistakes and large potential gains —…
- A company is a physical system — offices, equipment, people, infrastructure.
- Companies still running 90-day loops cannot compete with those running 90-second ones.
- AI-native companies are the next step: when the comparator, sensor, and effector are all AI agents,…
- Kanban is the most radical step so far: it removes fixed timeboxes entirely, making the feedback…
- Management has been shortening the feedback cycle for decades: from annual reviews to quarterly OKR…
- Kanban replaces fixed iterations with continuous flow: work is pulled when there is capacity, WIP…
- Empirical process control is closed-loop feedback control applied to work processes: execute is the…
- Scrum is an implementation of empirical process control: each sprint is a…
- Empirical process control: execute a small part of the plan, get feedback on the result, adapt the…
- Scrum embeds three inspect-and-adapt loops: daily standup (1-day cycle), sprint review (1-4 week…