This is a Request For Comments about how to structure doctrine in terms of microdoctrine (a pattern language for implementing and learning doctrine)
Phase: Stop Self Harm
Category: Learning
Principle: Bias Towards Data
Motivation:
The purpose of mapping is not only to create a map and a shared understanding. It is also to learn climatic patterns, doctrine and context specific play. Maps provide a systematic way of doing this as long as you collate, review and learn from them. Have a bias towards such learning and the use of data.
Consider these first:
Challenge Assumptions and Remove Bias And Duplication
Illustrative description:
Use a systematic mechanism of learning.
Detailed description:
Up to now, Spend Control provided challenge before new projects and actions. Now, add an After Action Review to learn what happened with those projects and actions. Use the same mechanism of communication: maps. This completes the feedback loop of learning. This feedback loop is a repeatable process:
- Produce a map.
- Challenge the map.
- Decide what to do.
- Act.
- Update the map based on the outcome.
- Conduct After Action Review to learn.
… repeat
The After Action Review improves future Before Action Challenges. Before Action Challenges provide the base from which we learn.
STOP READING, TAKE ACTION
Consider next:
Use Appropriate Methods
Reproduced and adapted from writings by Simon Wardley under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.