Minimize Muda - How do we miss guerilla?

Pay attention – Why and how we miss guerilla?

When engaged in a demanding task, attention can act like a set of blinders, making it possible for salient stimuli to pass unnoticed right in front of our eyes ^1,3, this phenomenon of sustained inattentional blindness(IB)^2,3 is evident in our lives

 

Sensory organs , Pre Frontal  cortex (PFC), Basal Ganglia(BG), Thalamus,  thin layer of neuron inhibitors called Thalamic Reticular Nucleus (TRN) around thalamus work together during the demanding task.

The prefrontal cortex controls a filter on incoming sensory information in the thalamus^4,5  but when overwhelmed with information from sensory organs, PFC instruct BG to deploy TRN inhibitors to suppress the flow of sensory organ information overload to let allow required information^4,6. The guerilla being part of the information overload, will go in to the blind spot and that is how we miss guerilla.

 

 

Pay attention – How can we get guerilla in agile?

Sustained inattentional blindness in agile squad /pod /teams can be minimized when each individual views and thoughts are independent of social influence and halo effects.

The formal process of aggregating diverse views (Delphi) may challenging but estimate-talk-estimate (mini delphi)⁷ may help in agile environment.

     

 

 

1.      (Neisser & Becklen, 1975)¹

2.      Simons and Chabris’ (1999) study

3.      “The invisible gorilla strikes again: Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers” (nih.gov)

4.      To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight | Quanta Magazine

5.      Francis Crick (1984)

6.      Michael Halassa (2015) MIT

Selection and aggregation in forecasting (chapter 21)page 262, Noise A flow in Human Judgement, Kahneman, Sunstein, sibony