Interventions
How an intervention travels
Read the work as a sequence of observation, design, field execution and transfer. The JUBAP framework, rationalization and Tiger Teams connect architectural intent to a bounded decision in a live operation.
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Concepts on this path
- Application retirementDecide whether to continue, replace or retire an application while accounting for the capabilities it supports.
- Architecture decisionChange or preserve dependencies, applications and controls using evidence of capability and use.
- Batched coordination cadenceGroup decisions to make coordination worthwhile within urgency and risk limits.
- Capability activation conditionsResponsibility, access, trust, pressure, resources and interaction make capability usable.
- Capability federationCoordinate capacities with shared accountability while retaining useful local differences.
- Context handoffTransfer evidence with meaning, limits and conditions for its receiving decision.
- Coordination burdenWork is needed to keep actors, systems and decisions aligned.
- Cross-territory architecture adaptationTransfer a function while redesigning rules, support and incentives for the receiver.
- Current and target map lockBoth the current-state representation and a legitimate route to the target may be inadequate.
- Decision agreement dispersionCount parties whose agreement is an actual gate for an atomic decision.
- Decision blocking reachTrace dependent results delayed or blocked by a decision.
- Distributed continuitySustain an operation across places, times and organisations.
- Domain knowledgeSituated expertise identifies constraints and exceptions a general model may miss.
- Dual operational embeddednessPeople or networks operating in two settings can sustain translation and continuity.
- Exploration–exploitation cycleRead how a discovered difference can become repeatable and scale.
- Field NotesPublic notes record operational observations, methods and reflections.
- From capture to architectureTranslate observations into value chains, capabilities, critical paths and competencies before process modelling.
- Generative integrationCombine useful differences so the parts can sustain new functions together.
- Informational Friction and Cost of ClarityInformation movement and producing decision-ready clarity consume work in different ways.
- Intervention compression and expansionOpening options, focused execution and organisational absorption need different structures.
- JUBAP intervention practiceThe practice uses perspective changes and focused interventions to activate capacity within organisations.
- JUBAP intervention sequenceConnect focus, changes in perspective, leverage points and propagation of capability.
- Legitimacy across an interfaceA carrier needs enough recognition in both communities to sustain translation.
- Local channelAn interaction environment has its own practices and constraints.
- Mission activationEstablish a focused commitment, accountable roles and a practical route to intervention.
- Mission activation and closureEnter intensified responsibility explicitly and leave it through review and transfer.
- Mobilisation thresholdIdentify the observed load and conditions at which coordination intensifies.
- Network externality compensationRecognise or support a contributor whose value is captured elsewhere in a network.
- Platform choiceChoose among integrated, capability-specific and hybrid platforms.
- Reductive integrationHomogenisation can remove functions or options carried by local differences.
- Release and causal inquiryLocate a drag point and investigate what sustains it before intervening.
- Resistance indicatorsOperational signals help locate obstacles to a transformation.
- School of judgment and communities of practicePractitioners develop and transmit judgment through situated work and reflection.
- Selective couplingConnect systems in stages to expose capabilities to new demands while retaining adaptation space.
- Shared core of qualified evidenceA common decision surface retains evidence provenance, version and limits.
- Sign of deviationCompare a departure from procedure with an independently stated outcome.
- Tiger TeamsFocused teams combine architecture, engineering, governance and operational delivery around a mission.