Subject Index

Alphabetical index of key concepts, characters, and sources of the book. Compiled from the Russian master edition.

I. Subject Index

abduction — see also «deductive method»
Acemoglu, Daron — see Section II
Acemoglu–Johnson typology, extraction vs distribution — Chapter 8
A-Janus (administrative mode) — see «Janus Poluektovich Nevstruev»
Agile methodology — Chapters 1, 2, 4
Agile transformation — Chapters 1, 2, 4
Alonso Quijano the Good (Don Quixote's name outside the myth) — Chapter 7
Amperian, Edik (NIICHAVO methodologist) — Chapter 9
antipattern (Agile) — Chapters 0, 1, 2, 4, 6
artifact (as metaphor) — Chapters 4, 6
Autor, David — see Section II

baciyelmo (Cervantes coinage; basin-helmet metaphor) — Chapter 7
Bender, Ostap (visionary of the myth, duo with Vorobyaninov) — Chapter 7
Borges's labyrinth — Chapters 4, 10
bureaucracy as illness — Chapters 0, 2, 4
bureaucracy of Scotland Yard (metaphor) — Chapter 3
bureaucratic cycle — Chapters 0, 4, 5
burnout, team — Chapters 2, 6
burnout factors — Chapters 2, 6

Campbell, Joseph — see Section II
Campbell's law — Chapter 4
Camus, Albert — see Section II
cargo cult Agile — Chapters 1, 2, 4
Carroll, David — see Section II
Castel, Doctor (old Oran chemist who brews the serum locally) — Chapter 10
CI/CD conveyor — see «CI/CD» (Section III)
collective intelligence (Malone, MIT CCI) — Chapter 6a
complaint about the tool (antipattern) — Chapter 1
complex system — Chapters 2, 5
continuous delivery — Chapter 3
convergence without hierarchy (Camus, communauté) — Chapter 10
corporate dualism (espoused vs enacted culture) — Chapter 6b
counter-movement (Polanyi canon) — Chapter 8
Crew of Light (Stoker canon) — Chapter 6a
CTO (Chief Technology Officer) — Chapter 6
cultural artifacts (Schein) — Chapter 6b
cultural gap (between declaration and practice) — Chapter 6b
cynicism as defensive mechanism — Chapter 6b

daily stand-up — Chapters 1, 4
data-driven approach — Chapters 3, 4
deductive method — Chapters 3, 10
defensive mode of team mythology (Theranos, WeWork) — Chapter 7
defensive routines — see «Argyris» (Section III)
Department of Linear Happiness (NIICHAVO, Kivrin) — Chapter 9
Department of the Meaning of Life (NIICHAVO, Junta) — Chapter 9
Department of Universal Transformations (NIICHAVO, Vybegallo — antipattern) — Chapter 9
deutero-learning — see «Bateson», «Argyris» (Section III)
diagnostic question (twelve questions, chapter synthesis) — Afterword
directive consensus (antipattern) — Chapter 4
discipline of continuation (Camus, Law 4 of Chapter 10) — Chapter 10
Don Quixote (team visionary) — Chapters 7, 10
double-loop learning — see «Argyris» (Section III)
double movement (Polanyi canon) — Chapter 8
dual leadership (A-function / U-function) — see «Janus Poluektovich Nevstruev»
dysfunction of team ceremonies — Chapters 1, 2, 4

Eloi (metaphor) — Chapter 8
emotional intelligence (Goleman canon) — Chapter 7
engineering standard — Chapters 3, 5
epistemic debt — Chapters 3, 4
espoused theory — see «Argyris» (Section III)
evolution of team practices — Chapters 1, 10
extraction vs distribution (Acemoglu–Johnson regime typology) — Chapter 8

Fabian socialism (Wells context) — Chapter 8
feedback loops — Chapters 1, 3, 6
Fogg, Phileas — Chapters 0, 1, 10
Fogg's route — Chapters 0, 1, 10
Fogg's wager — Chapters 0, 1, 10
formations sanitaires — see Section III
foundation pit (metaphor of labour without a purpose; also A. Platonov novel «The Foundation Pit») — Chapter 8
founding myth — Chapter 7
Frankenstein (metaphor of unmanageable project) — Chapters 2, 10

gemba (genchi genbutsu, Japanese method) — Chapter 1
generative mode of team mythology (Patagonia, SpaceX, Toyota) — Chapter 7
Gian Giacomo (NIICHAVO theorist) — Chapter 9
goal displacement — see «Goodhart's law»
Goleman, Daniel — see Section II
Goodhart's law — Chapters 0, 4

Harker, Mina (coordinator of distributed team) — Chapter 6a
Holmes, Elizabeth (Theranos) — Chapter 7
Holmes, Sherlock — Chapter 3
Holmes's method — see «deductive method»
Holmes's model of thinking — Chapter 3
honnêteté — see Section III
horizons of labour — 4 laws (amplification / polarization / distribution as political choice / Polanyi double movement) — Chapter 8
horizontal coordination (self-organizing R&D team) — Chapter 9
hybrid construction (language antipattern) — Chapters 4, 6

immersion (as onboarding method, NIICHAVO Law 4) — Chapter 9
increment demo — see «sprint review»
industry of Agile methods — Chapters 1, 4
irony of bureaucracy — Chapters 0, 4
island (as metaphor) — Chapter 5
island self-sufficiency — Chapter 5

Janus Poluektovich Nevstruev (director of NIICHAVO, dual leadership A-Janus ↔ U-Janus) — Chapter 9
Jekyll/Hyde (metaphor of corporate duality) — Chapter 6b
Judt, Tony — see Section II
Junta, Cristóbal Hosevich (head of Department of Meaning of Life, NIICHAVO, former Great Inquisitor) — Chapter 9

kaizen (Japanese method) — Chapter 1
Kamnoyedov, Modest Matveyevich (NIICHAVO administrative deputy, administrator's antagonist) — Chapter 9
Kanban — see Section III
Kivrin, Fyodor Simeonovich (head of Department of Linear Happiness, NIICHAVO) — Chapter 9
Koreiko, Alexander Ivanovich (metaphor of hidden double life) — Chapter 6b
Korneev, Victor Pavlovich (NIICHAVO magician-engineer, perfectionist) — Chapter 9
KPI optimization — see «KPI» (Section III)

La Peste — see Section II («The Plague»)
labour market polarization (Autor canon) — Chapter 8
labyrinth (as metaphor) — Chapters 4, 10
Lanyon, Doctor Hastie (witness to the rupture, archetype of burned-out senior) — Chapter 6b
lean startup — see also «MVP» — Chapters 1, 2
limits of autonomy — Chapters 2, 5
Lincoln Island — Chapter 5
Literary Business Analysis (LBA — methodological frame of the book) — Preface / Afterword

Mambrino's helmet (metaphor of collective interpretation) — Chapter 7
managerial subbotnik (antipattern) — Chapters 4, 6a
Mann Gulch disaster (Weick 1993) — Chapter 7
map (as metaphor) — Chapters 1, 5, 10
map of Lincoln Island — Chapter 5
mechanism (as metaphor) — Chapters 0, 2, 3
metaphor as an analytic tool — All chapters
methodological theatre (antipattern) — see «Vybegallo»
metric as end-in-itself — see «Goodhart's law»
minimum viable product — see «MVP» (Section III)
mirror (as metaphor) — Chapters 2, 6b
model (as metaphor) — Chapters 1, 2, 8
modes of team mythology — see «generative mode», «defensive mode», «reconciling mode»
monomyth — see Section III
Monday-begins-on-Saturday (meaning-based entry filter, NIICHAVO Law 1) — Chapter 9
Morlocks (metaphor) — Chapter 8
muda (Toyota waste) — Chapters 1, 2
muri (Toyota overburden) — Chapters 1, 2

Nautilus (metaphor of closed system) — Chapters 1, 5
Nemo, Captain — see Section II
Nevstruev, Janus Poluektovich — see «Janus Poluektovich Nevstruev»
NIICHAVO (Research Institute of Wizardry and Magic, Strugatsky canon) — Chapter 9
NIICHAVO law — see «Monday-begins-on-Saturday»
non-routine tasks (Autor canon) — Chapter 8

Oira-Oira, Roman Petrovich (NIICHAVO staff) — Chapter 9
OKR — see Section III
ongoing crisis (as team's operating mode) — Chapter 10
open institution (NIICHAVO metaphor) — Chapter 9
Oran (seaside city under quarantine, setting of «The Plague») — Chapter 10
organizational adaptation — Chapters 1, 4
organizational sensemaking (Weick) — Chapter 7

Paneloux, Father (Jesuit theologian, two sermons before/after Othon child's death) — Chapter 10
«Paneloux's first sermon» (theological explanation of suffering as punishment) — Chapter 10
«Paneloux's second sermon» (rejection of theological framing after child's death) — Chapter 10
parallel commitments (Camus, Law 3 of Chapter 10: convergence without hierarchy) — Chapter 10
Passepartout (executor role) — Chapters 0, 1
planning ritual — Chapters 1, 4
poka-yoke (error prevention) — Chapters 1, 2
Polanyi, Karl — see Section II
Polanyi, Michael (M. Polanyi; tacit knowledge; brother of Karl Polanyi) — Chapter 9
pragmatist (team role, duo with visionary) — Chapter 7
Privalov, Alexander Ivanovich (programmer, new NIICHAVO staff member) — Chapter 9
process mania — Chapters 1, 4
Product Owner — Chapters 1, 2, 4
product backlog — Chapters 1, 2, 4
product increment — Chapters 1, 4
product manager — Chapters 1, 5
product vision — Chapters 5, 7
project agony — Chapters 2, 4
Prometheus (metaphor of creator) — Chapters 2, 4
proxy metric — see «Goodhart's law»
psychological safety — see Section III

Quijano the Good, Alonso — see «Alonso Quijano the Good»

Rambert, Raymond (journalist of L'Echo de Paris, refused to leave Oran) — Chapter 10
reconciling mode of team mythology — Chapter 7
reporting as ceremony — Chapters 1, 4
refusal as commitment (Camus, Law 1 of Chapter 10; selection-by-refusal) — Chapter 10
regression to the mean — Chapters 4, 6
rejection of theological framing (Paneloux's second sermon) — Chapter 10
retrospective — Chapters 1, 2, 4
Rieux, Bernard — Chapter 10
ritual replaces work (Hyde antipattern) — Chapter 6b
role (Agile roles) — Chapters 1, 2, 4
role ambiguity (antipattern) — Chapters 1, 4
role replaces person (Hyde antipattern) — Chapter 6b
route (as metaphor) — Chapters 0, 1, 5, 10
routine tasks — see Section III

Sancho Panza — Chapter 7
sanitary brigades (formations sanitaires, Tarrou in «The Plague») — Chapter 10
scaled Agile — see also «SAFe» (Section III) — Chapters 1, 4
Scrum Master — Chapters 1, 2, 4
selection-by-attraction (NIICHAVO, meaning-based entry filter) — see also «selection-by-refusal» — Chapter 9
selection-by-refusal (team formation through refusal to leave) — see also «selection-by-attraction» — Chapters 9, 10
selection over learning (NIICHAVO Law 1) — Chapter 9
Sennett, Richard — see Section II
Shalamov, Varlam — see Section II
shared decency (Camus, honnêteté; Law 2 of Chapter 10) — Chapter 10
Shelley, Mary — see Section II
single source of truth — Chapters 3, 5, 6a
Smith, Cyrus (engineer-civilizer metaphor) — Chapter 5
soft skills — Chapter 6
Solovets (fictitious NIICHAVO city) — Chapter 9
specialist vs administrator (NIICHAVO Law 3, Junta vs Kamnoyedov) — Chapter 9
sprint — Chapters 1, 2, 4
sprint planning — Chapters 1, 2, 4
sprint review (increment demo) — Chapters 1, 4
stakeholders — Chapters 1, 5
stand-up ritual — Chapters 1, 4
startup as metaphor — Chapters 1, 2
sticker liturgy (antipattern) — Chapter 4
story point — Chapters 1, 4
Strugatsky, A. and B. — see Section II
structural thinking — Chapter 3
success story — Chapters 5, 6

Tarrou, Jean (visitor, organizer of sanitary brigades in Oran) — Chapter 10
task decomposition — Chapters 1, 2, 3
Taylorism — Chapters 0, 2
team burnout — Chapters 2, 6
team failure — Chapters 2, 6
team hierarchy (metaphor) — Chapters 5, 6a
team mythology — see Section III
team panic — Chapters 2, 6
team procrastination — Chapters 2, 4
team ritual — Chapters 1, 2, 4
team success — Chapters 2, 5, 7
team velocity — Chapters 1, 4
team vision — Chapters 5, 7
«The Plague» (Camus) — see Section II
«The Tale of the Troika» — see Section II
theological framing of suffering as defensive mechanism (antipattern of Paneloux's first sermon) — Chapter 10
tool becomes goal — see «Goodhart's law»
trap (as metaphor) — Chapters 0, 4
trap of metrics — Chapters 0, 4
trigger phrase — Chapter 3

U-Janus (retrospective mode) — see «Janus Poluektovich Nevstruev»
user experience (UX) — Chapter 1

velocity — see «team velocity»
velocity gaming (velocity manipulation) — Chapter 4
vicious cycle — see «bureaucratic cycle»
victim of ritual — Chapters 1, 4
visionary (team role, duo with pragmatist) — Chapter 7
visionary-pragmatist duo (Quixote–Sancho) — Chapter 7
Vorobyaninov, Ippolit Matveyevich (pragmatist, duo with Bender) — Chapter 7
Vybegallo, Ambrosius Ambroisovich (methodological theatre, careerist antipattern) — Chapter 9

wager (as metaphor, stake on the future) — Chapters 0, 1
waste (Toyota) — see «muda»
waterfall model — Chapters 1, 2
weak signal — Chapter 3
Weick, Karl — see Section II
Wells, Herbert — see Section II
windmill as metaphor (Don Quixote) — Chapter 7

II. Names and Works

Authors

Acemoglu, Daron — Chapter 8
Argyris, Chris — Chapters 6b, 7, 9
Autor, David H. — Chapter 8
Bateson, Gregory — Chapter 6b
Bondarenko, Svetlana (compiler of Strugatsky. Materials for a Study) — Chapter 9
Borges, Jorge Luis — Chapters 4, 10
Campbell, Donald — Chapter 4
Campbell, Joseph (monomyth) — Chapter 7
Camus, Albert (1913–1960) — Chapter 10
Carroll, David (Albert Camus the Algerian) — Chapter 10
Carroll, Lewis — Chapters 2, 3
Cervantes, Miguel de — Chapters 7, 10
Chouinard, Yvon — Chapter 7
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (reference to «Ivan Karamazov's Rebellion») — Chapter 10
Doyle, Arthur Conan — Chapters 3, 10
Goffman, Erving — Chapter 6b
Goleman, Daniel — Chapter 7
Goodhart, Charles — Chapters 0, 4
Hutchins, Edwin — see Section III
Ilf, Ilya — Chapters 6b, 7
Johnson, Simon — Chapter 8
Judt, Tony — Chapter 10
Malone, Thomas — see Section III
Migunov, Evgeny Tikhonovich (illustrator of «Monday Begins on Saturday») — Chapter 9
Petrov, Yevgeny — Chapters 6b, 7
Platonov, Andrei Platonovich — Chapter 8
Polanyi, Karl — Chapter 8
Polanyi, Michael — see Section III
Schein, Edgar — Chapters 6b, 7
Schön, Donald — Chapters 6b, 7
Sennett, Richard (Together) — Chapter 10
Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich — Chapter 10
Shelley, Mary — Chapters 2, 10
Skalandis, Ant (Strugatsky biographer) — Chapter 9
Stevenson, Robert Louis — Chapter 6b
Stoker, Bram — Chapter 6a
Strugatsky, Arkady Natanovich — Chapter 9
Strugatsky, Boris Natanovich — Chapter 9
Verne, Jules — Chapters 0, 1, 5, 10
Webb, Sidney & Beatrice — Chapter 8
Weick, Karl E. — Chapters 7, 10
Wells, Herbert (H. G. Wells) — Chapters 8, 10
Westrum, Ron — Chapter 6b

Works

(The articles «The/A/Le/La» are not counted in sort order.)

«The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes» (Doyle) — Chapter 3
Albert Camus the Algerian (David Carroll) — Chapter 10
«Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» (Carroll) — Chapters 2, 3
Apocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Yvonne Howell) — see Section III
«Around the World in Eighty Days» (Verne) — Chapters 0, 1, 10
«The Brothers Karamazov» (Dostoevsky, chapter «Rebellion») — Chapter 10
The Burden of Responsibility (Tony Judt, on Camus) — Chapter 10
Dealers of Lightning (Michael A. Hiltzik, Xerox PARC) — see Section III
«Don Quixote» (Cervantes) — Chapters 7, 10
«Dracula» (Stoker) — Chapter 6a
«Emotional Intelligence» (Goleman) — Chapter 7
Extreme Programming Explained (Kent Beck) — see Section III
The Fearless Organization (Amy Edmondson) — see Section III
«The Foundation Pit» (Platonov) — Chapter 8
«Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus» (Shelley) — Chapters 2, 10
The Great Transformation (Polanyi) — Chapter 8
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (J. Campbell) — Chapter 7
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs (Jon Gertner) — see Section III
«Kolyma Tales» (Shalamov) — Chapter 10
«Kommentarii k proidennomu» (Comments on What Has Passed, B. Strugatsky; no English edition) — Chapter 9
«The Little Golden Calf» (Ilf & Petrov) — Chapter 6b
Managing the Unexpected (K. Weick, K. Sutcliffe) — Chapter 10
«Monday Begins on Saturday» (Strugatskys) — Chapter 9
Le Mythe de Sisyphe / «The Myth of Sisyphus» (Camus) — Chapter 10
«The Mysterious Island» (Verne) — Chapters 1, 5
La Peste / «The Plague» (Camus 1947) — Chapter 10
Power and Progress (Acemoglu & Johnson) — Chapter 8
«The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life» (Goffman) — Chapter 6b
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari) — see Section III
Sensemaking in Organizations (K. Weick) — Chapter 7
«Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde» (Stevenson) — Chapter 6b
The Tacit Dimension (Michael Polanyi) — see Section III
«Tale of the Troika» (Strugatskys) — Chapter 9
«The Time Machine» (Wells) — Chapters 8, 10
«Through the Looking-Glass» (Carroll) — Chapter 3
«Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius» (Borges) — Chapter 4
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation (Richard Sennett) — Chapter 10
«Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea» (Verne) — Chapters 1, 5
«The Twelve Chairs» (Ilf & Petrov) — Chapter 7

III. Abbreviations and English-Language Terms

Acemoglu, Daron — Chapter 8
Agile — Chapters 0, 1, 2, 4
API — Chapters 3, 5
Argyris, Chris (espoused theory, theory-in-use, defensive routines, double-loop learning, undiscussables; Empowerment) — Chapters 6b, 9
Autor, David H. (routine vs non-routine tasks, job polarization) — Chapter 8

back stage (Goffman canon) — Chapter 6b
baciyelmo (Cervantes coinage; basin-helmet) — Chapter 7
Bateson, Gregory (deutero-learning) — Chapter 6b
Beck, Kent (XP, Chrysler C3) — Chapter 9
Bell Labs (Gertner canon, knowledge-worker self-organization) — Chapter 9

Campbell, Joseph (monomyth) — Chapter 7
Camus, Albert (La Peste; honnêteté; communauté) — Chapter 10
Carroll, David (Albert Camus the Algerian) — Chapter 10
cas douteux (Camus canon; the doubtful case — Father Paneloux's diagnosis) — Chapter 10
CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) — Chapter 3
collective intelligence (Malone/MIT CCI canon) — Chapter 6a
communauté (Camus canon; the community of those who refused to leave) — Chapter 10

data-driven approach — Chapters 3, 4
defensive routines (Argyris canon) — Chapter 6b
deutero-learning (Bateson/Argyris canon) — Chapter 6b
DevOps — Chapter 3
distributed cognition (Hutchins canon) — Chapter 6a
double-loop learning (Argyris & Schön canon) — Chapter 6b
double movement (Polanyi canon) — Chapter 8

Edmondson, Amy C. (psychological safety, The Fearless Organization) — Chapter 9
emotional intelligence (Goleman canon) — Chapter 7
espoused theory (Argyris & Schön canon) — Chapter 6b

feedback loops — Chapters 1, 3, 6
formations sanitaires (Camus canon; the volunteer sanitary brigades of Tarrou in Oran) — Chapter 10
founding myth (Schein/Weick canon) — Chapter 7
front stage (Goffman canon) — Chapter 6b

Gertner, Jon (The Idea Factory; Bell Labs history) — Chapter 9
GitHub — Chapters 3, 5
Goffman, Erving (front stage / back stage) — Chapter 6b
Goleman, Daniel (emotional intelligence) — Chapter 7

high-reliability organization (Weick & Sutcliffe canon; HRO principles) — Chapter 10
Hiltzik, Michael A. (Dealers of Lightning; Xerox PARC) — Chapter 9
honnêteté (Camus canon; common decency as the operating principle of crisis ethics) — Chapter 10
Howell, Yvonne (Apocalyptic Realism; Strugatsky scholarship) — Chapter 9
Hutchins, Edwin — Chapter 6a

Incident Command System (ICS; FEMA NIMS, FIRESCOPE California 1970s) — Chapter 10

job polarization (Autor canon) — Chapter 8
Johnson, Simon — Chapter 8
Judt, Tony (The Burden of Responsibility; Camus scholarship) — Chapter 10

Kanban — Chapters 1, 2
KPI — Chapters 0, 1, 4

La Peste (Camus 1947) — see «The Plague» (Section II)
lean startup — Chapters 1, 2

Malone, Thomas (MIT CCI) — Chapter 6a
Mann Gulch disaster (Weick 1993) — Chapter 7
monomyth (Campbell canon) — Chapter 7
MVP — Chapters 1, 2, 5

NIICHAVO (Research Institute of Wizardry and Magic, Strugatsky canon; transliteration retained per Bromfield 1977 EN translation of Monday Begins on Saturday) — Chapter 9
non-routine tasks (Autor canon) — Chapter 8

OKR — Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7

Polanyi, Karl (double movement, embeddedness, fictitious commodities) — Chapter 8
Polanyi, Michael (The Tacit Dimension; brother of Karl Polanyi) — Chapter 9
Product Owner — Chapters 1, 2, 4
psychological safety (Edmondson canon) — Chapter 9

routine tasks (Autor canon) — Chapter 8

SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) — Chapters 1, 4
Schein, Edgar (artifacts / espoused values / basic underlying assumptions) — Chapters 6b, 7
Scrum — Chapters 1, 2, 4
Scrum Master — Chapters 1, 2, 4
selection-by-attraction (Strugatsky canon; counter-principle to selection-by-refusal) — see also «selection-by-refusal» — Chapter 9
selection-by-refusal (Camus canon; counter-principle to selection-by-attraction) — see also «selection-by-attraction» — Chapter 10
Sennett, Richard (Together; cooperation as craft) — Chapter 10
sensemaking (Weick canon) — Chapter 7
single-loop learning (Argyris canon) — Chapter 6b
soft skills — Chapter 6
Spotify model — Chapters 1, 4
story point — Chapters 1, 4
Strugatsky brothers — see «Strugatsky, Arkady» / «Strugatsky, Boris» (Section II)
Sutcliffe, Kathleen M. (co-author, Managing the Unexpected) — Chapter 10

tacit knowledge (M. Polanyi canon) — Chapter 9
team mythology (Weick/Schein canon) — Chapter 7
theory-in-use (Argyris & Schön canon) — Chapter 6b

undiscussables (Argyris canon) — Chapter 6b

velocity — see «team velocity» (Section I)

waterfall — Chapters 1, 2
Webb, Sidney & Beatrice (Fabian context for Wells) — Chapter 8
Weick, Karl E. (sensemaking; Managing the Unexpected) — Chapters 7, 10
Westrum, Ron (generative / bureaucratic / pathological typology) — Chapter 6b

Xerox PARC (Hiltzik canon, knowledge-worker self-organization) — Chapter 9
XP (Extreme Programming, Beck canon) — Chapter 9

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