Matthew E Edgar

“Multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational work does not depend on designing the perfect system, but on enabling people to work together with shared intentions and a sense of personal and professional agency”
― John Ballatt, Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State

“Studying and enhancing the “information environment” for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.”
― Sidney Dekker, Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

“agile development reflects a product lifecycle approach (continuous delivery of value), rather than a project approach (begin-end). While an individual release of a product can be managed as a project, an agile approach views a release as a single stage in a product’s ongoing evolution.”
― Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

“At the end of every scientific paper there is a familiar coda: more research is needed, more research is needed. What, I wondered, if we added a new coda: more action is needed. It need not be discordant with the first.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World