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# People need Strategy. Automata need Plans.
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/people-need-strategy-talk/
- Published: 2021-11-20T00:08:41.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-20T00:08:41.000Z
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: Workshops and Talks

> *How to steer a group towards a goal*

*Match your method to the things that will be doing the working.*

*Come play with control, constraints, resonance and emergent behaviours. We’ll contrast with harmony, hacking and improvisation, and try to judge some ways we might steer groups towards goals.*

- *Strategy helps people work coherently at a distance. A plan gets stuff into the right arrangement in time and space.*
- *A strategy sets out what you plan, and how you plan it.*
- *Strategy rests on shared values and contextual awareness. Plans rest on organising parts.*
- *You use play to change a group into a team.*
- *Culture is the collection of assumptions that we choose to keep.*

Went to AgileTestingDays 2019, and CultureCon 2019\. Involved group singing. Absolutely bombed at both. I've got videos, and I'll watch them one day. Hey ho.