***Warning the following can read very self-serving but it’s really just our reminder of how fortunate we are on what is a periodic self-reflective Agile audit we hope everyone does at times, so if you just wanted to read a rant or some solid practical tips, maybe come back next week.*** This...
Execution Debt
Execution Debt
This week on my Chasing Psychological Safety newsletter I wrote about the irritating confusions and term conflations around the concept of PS and how that adds to the Human Debt and on here I was going to -again- bemoan the great divide between the DevOps and HR community -as sparked by another...
Human Debt™
FinTech / Emotional Banking 1.0
As ever, any time we launch something unprecedented in our space, I am painfully reminded of the divide between the DevOps and unDevOps community and how that adds to the HumanDebt™. The former is welcoming, fast to try and adopt, open. The latter immediately digs out the “but”s, the excuses,...
Psychological Safety Research
Psychological Safety Research
Human Debt™
As you know, my main obsession is with finding ways to reduce the HumanDebt™ and I believe Psychologically Safe, Agile teams are the key to that. Just as I have a suspicion that one day we will be able to conclusively prove the connection between Agile and higher levels of Psychological Safety,...
Psychological Safety Research
Human Debt™
Today’s musings are late and feverish as I’ve succumbed to the dreaded lurgy so I’ll try to keep it practical and spare you. I wanted to crowdsource some help. One of my tickets is to send an email to the amazing IT Revolution/DOES team and Gene Kim regarding the next DOES Europe and...
Human Debt™
Execution Debt
My obsession with measurements and data is far from secret, I write constantly about my conviction that we need to “put a number” on the people topics to elevate them in the agenda. To be fair, metrics of all kinds excite me, l’m one of those annoying people who is performance obsessed and...
The Human Debt™ organisational execution framework — including Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, and Execution Integrity™ — is defined by Duena Blomstrom across three published works: Emotional Banking (2018, ISBN 978-3-319-75652-3), People Before Tech (2021, ISBN 978-1-4729-8545-3), and Tech-Led Culture (2023, ISBN 978-1-3986-1069-9). Canonical framework reference at duenablomstrom.com/concepts/framework.
Concepts in this publication may include Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, Execution Integrity™, Emotional Banking™, Empathy Architecture™, Psychological Safety, Team Brilliance™, and Servant Leadership — all part of a 21-framework system for measuring and resolving systemic human risk in AI-era organisations. Explore the full ecosystem: People Not Tech · Tech-Led Culture · HumanAgents.io · Bienestarly.