Agile Cambridge 2026 — day one — notes

I was at day one of Agile Cambridge 2026. I've written elsewhere about the chipping and the craft, inspired by the Barbara Hepworth sculpture in the venue grounds. Here's my notes from the morning talks I went to, all of which I took a lot from. (Apols to Mark Devis and his also excellent after lunch workshop Turning team health checks into experiments that matter – I was more in a doing mode then.)Context, constraints and complexityAlicia JuarreroSeeing what you expect to seeFrameworks shape what we notice. We miss what isn't in the frameLog cabins only appeared in America when Scandinavian settlers brought their practice of building with whole logs. British settlers, used to planks, never thought of it9/11 "joining the dots": the dots weren't seen because they didn't fit the expected frameworkWhen the brain can't find a pattern, it makes up a story that fitsAI has the same limit: good within a frame of reference, weak across framesBeyond billiard ball causalityScience mostly works…