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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @chrisvmcd

Husband | Father 💛 | Agile(ish) coach. Founder of @LeanAgileScot & @LeanAgileGla | Social Practice Theory | Scottish | He/Him

Joined February 2009
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I just published “Mapping Maturity: create context specific maturity models with Wardley Maps informed by Cynefin” medium.com/p/mapping-maturit…

Mapping Maturity: create context specific maturity models with Wardley Maps informed by Cynefin

When organisations and teams are looking to understand how good they are and where they should look to improve they often reach for the…

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Stu Kennedy
@stukennedydev
24 Nov 2025
Our next Design Challenge is live! We’re exploring how AI could transform the assessment-call experience ... a process often marked by long waits, repeated questioning, inaccessible formats and huge pressure on both claimants and assessors. What if we could use AI to create assessment calls that are clearer, fairer, easier to navigate and far less stressful ... for everyone involved? It’s a chance to rethink a system under serious strain and rebuild it around empathy, accuracy and speed. /w @chrisvmcd youtu.be/OF4NlS33FXc @GOVUK @DWPgovuk
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My first piece of writing for a while. I thought I'd join the AI conversation with a social practice perspective on how Voice AI, in this example, might subtly affect the workplace. medium.com/@chrisvmcd/the-sp… @stukennedydev

The Spoken Form

Rather than wiping out what we do in the workplace, I posit that AI will instead reshape how we do it. For the most part, it’s less likely…

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Stu Kennedy
@stukennedydev
20 Nov 2025
Our first Design Challenge is live! We’re looking at how AI could transform the handwritten PIP form process … a system slowed by huge backlogs, long waits and the challenge of interpreting thousands of handwritten submissions. AI can help bring speed, clarity and fairness to a process under real strain. /w @chrisvmcd youtu.be/kOMeHxP0P-8 @GOVUK @DWPgovuk
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@leanpub
26 Oct 2023
Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II: Advanced Topics in Predictability leanpub.com/actionableagilem… by Daniel S. Vacanti is the featured book on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com @danvacanti #Agile #LeadershipAgile #Leadership #AgileBusinessLeadership #Lean

Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II

The second volume in a series on how to use flow metrics and analytics to get the predictability your customers crave.

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Barbara Frontera@BarbaraFrontera
18 Sep 2023
ICYMI, @chrisvmcd will be speaking @ The Complexity Lounge tomorrow, 9/19, at Noon EDT. He'll talk about complexity, change, Agile, and everything else he's learned in the last 20 years. Well, maybe not everything. Come on, join us. meetup.com/complexity-lounge…

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Lean Agile Glasgow
@LeanAgileGLA
7 Aug 2023
On Wednesday we have our August event, kicking off with a talk from Paula McLean on becoming a product-centric organisation, then @chrisvmcd on contextualised learning! We'll be hosted by MBN, and should have pizza. Wed 9th Aug, 6pm doors. Full details: meetup.com/lean-agile-glasgo…

IN-PERSON: Talk night: Paula McLean on Product and Chris McDermott on Learning, Wed, Aug 9, 2023,...

For our August event, we have two great talks for you. As warmups for conferences, we've got a preview of Paula McLean's new talk, "Becoming a Product-Centric Organisation"

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Lean Agile Glasgow
@LeanAgileGLA
1 Aug 2023
That event we've got next week with a talk from Paula McLean? Well, we just added @chrisvmcd too! He'll be talking about social practice theory and learning. Wednesday 9th August, 6pm doors for 6.15 start. Details: meetup.com/lean-agile-glasgo…

IN-PERSON: Talk night: Paula McLean on Product and Chris McDermott on Learning, Wed, Aug 9, 2023,...

For our August event, we have two great talks for you. As warmups for conferences, we've got a preview of Paula McLean's new talk, "Becoming a Product-Centric Organisation"

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I'm finding more and more that my work with organisations and teams involves undoing/reconfiguring the practices adopted to cope with the pandemic.
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Lean Agile Scotland@LeanAgileScot
26 Jul 2023
We're delighted that #lascot founder Chris McDermott (@chrisvmcd) returns as a speaker this year with his talk "Re-contextualising 20 years of learning" bit.ly/3Y4v6cv See the full event programme: bit.ly/3O28tAH

Re-contextualising 20 years of learning

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I was asked to contribute to a discussion on Agile meet ups/conferences in Scotland and to tell the story about their history. I drew this timeline... what am I missing? @AgileScotland @LeanAgileGLA @LeanAgileScot @LeanAgileEdi @TheFOWScotland
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You really have to think about the message you are sending here @Tesco #PeriodPoverty
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Chris McDermott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺@chrisvmcd
5 Feb 2019
I just published Triangles — A simple game for a Complex subject link.medium.com/gXJmw6Vp4T

Triangles — A simple game for a Complex subject

My goto game to illustrate interdependence, connectivity and complexity is called Triangles. It’s a slight derivative of the Triangles…

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I still get goosebumps watching this… Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997 youtu.be/ATvonKDt6jQ

Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997

Radiohead - Glastonbury Festival 1997-06-28 RadioheadMain Stage...

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Who first said “Stop starting, start finishing”? I’m assuming it’s someone from the early Kanban community but I can’t recall who.
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@romeu@mastodon.social@malk_zameth
5 Jun 2023
« Variation vs variability Variability is unintentional differences In products Variation is intentional one Platforms help you lower variability to increase variation» — @cyetain #DDDEU
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Quite Interesting
@qikipedia
2 Jun 2023
Ever wondered if the Myers-Briggs Test is credible? Sandi has the answer... 🗒️
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Jamu Kakar
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31 May 2023
The idea that a JIRA ticket should have so much information in it that anyone can pick it up, do the task, and verify acceptance criteria is asinine. So much effort to avoid talking to each other. My mind boggles at this stuff.
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Ana Mandić@tanandaaa
23 May 2023
Interesting workshop on Change Mapping run by @chrisvmcd at #LALDN23 All groups in the room came with a different story and mapping, but we all identified the same new practice that can be introduced. And we had good disucssions what that means for us, as a group, in our context
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