Tools and Systems for Belonging

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Here’s one you may not have thought of - what software tools we use on the daily is not only part of our work culture, but is also shaping the way we think and is can play a part in our sense of belonging. How?

Well, consider your project management software. Whatever it may be -but hopefully your mind went straight to Jira or Trello when I mentioned it-. Good software slides perfectly into how you organise your work life and not only lets you do the things you need to but even guides you along as long as you bother to use it. And if you do so regularly you find that your thinking patterns may adapt to include it at a very basal level. All of us who have worked in Agile for long enough are for example nowadays eternally thinking in terms of backlogs and WIP.

We’ve been working with a few big clients to seize up the piece of work they truly have to face if they are to start eradicating their existing HumanDebt™ and it’s never trivial. When the work is done in earnest, it can’t escape having to take on massive challenges when it comes to change. A surgically honest look at all the systems humans use as well as complete sincerity regarding past attempts, programs that may have failed, leaders that may not have went the extra mile, etc.