Commit to the direction, be adaptive along the path

We host Jessica Kerr for this episode. She is challenged with the heuristic “Commit to the direction, be adaptive along the path” from the Simon Wardley Doctrine repository (https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Doctrine_Patterns#Commit_to_the_direction.2C_be_adaptive_along_the_path). She explains her own heuristic, “Having a quest” since often we are wrong about the path! The episode is a gold mine on heuristics, and there are a few more.

Jessica recommends the following resources:

• Learn Wardley Map (https://learnwardleymapping.com/)
• Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/)
• Introduction To Observability (https://www.honeycomb.io/obs101/)
• Obliquity by John Kay
• Games: Agency As Art by C. Thi Nguyen

Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) is a developer advocate, software developer and symmathecist with 20+ years of experience. She has worked in enterprises and startups, in Java, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, and TypeScript. Talk to her about technical details, or about how to get software to teach us about its needs.