Using Amplio

Buckminster Fuller, author of the ground-breaking book “Critical Path,” inspired many people. He was the person who created the term “Spaceship Earth” and invented the geodesic dome, among many other things. One of his most potent concepts was when he reflected on trim tabs. Airplanes and ships use trim tabs to help move their control surfaces (flaps and rudders). They are attached to a large control surface, which would otherwise be difficult to move. They look like flaps on the flaps of airplanes.

Bucky once said:

“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary. The whole ship goes by, and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab:

“It’s a miniature rudder. Moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. It takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, leaving you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that, and the whole big ship of state is going to go.”

So I said, “Call me Trim tab.”

Different Ways to Use Amplio

Amplio can be used to improve most any situation you find yourself in. Our experience has been that there are several patterns of difficulty that people have. Therefore we’ve created possible improvement paths for several of these which are listed below:

Improving Scrum

Reducing delays

Big Room Planning

Improving How Shared Services and Ops Works with Development Groups

intake

WIP

dependency reduction

etc.

This is:

operational application.