Post on 08-Jan-2017
Managing your career, skills, and knowledge base across organizations and across time
PMI Chicagoland – Career Development DayDecember 10, 2016
Jim McGee, Ph.D.jim.mcgee@gmail.com
HSPALTA: Hire Smart People and Leave Them Alone
Tom Davenport
Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
Alan Kay
Permanent Whitewater
Then• Organizational Tenure• Visible artifacts• Long knowledge half-
life• Stable heuristics
Now• Organizational
complexity• Invisibility of
knowledge work • Shrinking knowledge
half-life• Complexity defeats
heuristics
Intake Sense-making ArtifactsPeople - Thinkers - Community of Practice - Community of Interest - Devil’s AdvocatesPointers - URLs - RSS feeds - Social Media - JSONPaper - Books - Magazines
Patterns - Finding - Matching - Inventing - Imposing
Conversations - Sync/Async - F2F/Virtual
Visualizing - Sketching - Diagramming - Mapping
Blog Posts
Presentations
Documents
Correspondence
Visualizations - Diagrams - Graphs - Maps - Sketches - Pictures
Monitor—Evolve—Adapt—Tune
Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts
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Working PapersDeliverablesIntermediate representationsDigital Footprint
Naming ConventionsNamespacesVersion ControlCrap DetectionSourcingFiltering
BookmarkingTaggingFolksonomyTaxonomyPass by ReferenceIndirectionGranularity
Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts
Observable WorkNarrating Your WorkDomain of One’s OwnSystems of RecordReusePortable formats- Self describing- Human readable- Non-proprietaryTool ChainsWorking Set
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How it can look in practice
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Working PapersDeliverablesIntermediate representationsDigital Footprint
Naming ConventionsNamespacesVersion ControlCrap DetectionSourcingFiltering
BookmarkingTaggingFolksonomyTaxonomyPass by ReferenceIndirectionGranularity
Supporting Concepts and PracticesRepresentationsHygiene PracticesConcepts
Observable WorkNarrating Your WorkDomain of One’s OwnSystems of RecordReusePortable formats- Self describing- Human readable- Non-proprietaryTool ChainsWorking Set
Promising places to start
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One example—Jerry’s Brain
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Intellectual origins
Douglas Engelbart
• 1962 – Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework
• 1968 - Mother of all Demos
We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.Car Talk
Individual
Social
CAD drawing Calendar
Contract Conversation
Instant message
Mindmap Napkin sketch
Spreadsheet Story
Whiteboard diagram
“Stuff”
Structure
WikiNotebook
File DirectoryShared Drive RSS FeedBlog
Book DatabaseIntranet “Containers”
Individual
Social
Annual Report
Block diagram Blog
Blog post
Blueprint Book
Bookmark Business card
CAD drawing Calendar
Group Calendar
Case study
Catalog
Concept map
Contract Conversation
Course
Database query
Dialog map
Encyclopedia
Equation
Graph
Instant message
Interview notes
Library
Mindmap
Napkin sketch
Note
Org chart
Outline
Performance review
Phone call
Phone directory
PowerPoint presentation
Press release
Proposal
Regression model
Resume
Rolodex
RSS feed
Search results
Speech
Spreadsheet
Story
Syllabus
Term sheet
Tweet
Voice mail
Webpage Work plan
Whiteboard diagram
YouTube video
Knowledge “Stuff”
Structure
Notebook Binder
File DirectoryFile Folder
Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer
Blackberry
RSS FeedBlogWiki
Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data
Warehouse
Individual
Social
Annual Report
Block diagram Blog
Blog post
Blueprint Book
Bookmark Business card
CAD drawing Calendar
Group Calendar
Case study
Catalog
Concept map
Contract Conversation
Course
Database query
Dialog map
Encyclopedia
Equation
Graph
Instant message
Interview notes
Library
Mindmap
Napkin sketch
Note
Org chart
Outline
Performance review
Phone call
Phone directory
PowerPoint presentation
Press release
Proposal
Regression model
Resume
Rolodex
RSS feed
Search results
Speech
Spreadsheet
Story
Syllabus
Term sheet
Tweet
Voice mail
Webpage Work plan
Whiteboard diagram
YouTube video
Knowledge “Stuff”
Structure
Notebook Binder
File DirectoryFile Folder
Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer
Blackberry
RSS FeedBlogWiki
Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data
Warehouse
Tools perspective
Web browser PowerPoint ExcelMindmaps Blogs
Individual
Social
Annual Report
Block diagram Blog
Blog post
Blueprint Book
Bookmark Business card
CAD drawing Calendar
Group Calendar
Case study
Catalog
Concept map
Contract Conversation
Course
Database query
Dialog map
Encyclopedia
Equation
Graph
Instant message
Interview notes
Library
Mindmap
Napkin sketch
Note
Org chart
Outline
Performance review
Phone call
Phone directory
PowerPoint presentation
Press release
Proposal
Regression model
Resume
Rolodex
RSS feed
Search results
Speech
Spreadsheet
Story
Syllabus
Term sheet
Tweet
Voice mail
Webpage Work plan
Whiteboard diagram
YouTube video
Knowledge “Stuff”
Structure
Notebook Binder
File DirectoryFile Folder
Shared DriveDVDThumbdriveDaytimer
Blackberry
RSS FeedBlogWiki
Book eBook DatabaseKnowledge “Containers”Intranet Data
Warehouse
Strategy ComponentsHygieneFile namesTimestampsStandard MetadataVersion Control
ContextualizingTrip Reports/Diary/ BlogNarrating WorkDigital PortfoliosTimelines/Chronology
Tagging/MetadataUser generated taggingControlled vocabulariesDirectoriesSocial Networks – InternalSocial Networks – External
Solving for PatternAfter Action ReviewsNarrating WorkDigital PortfoliosIssue/Opportunity Threads