My unorganized list of resources that connect resilience and improvisation through theatre, music, sound, teamwork, and technology.

Papers

Davis

• Everybody has a song is a paper I wrote in graduate school at the University of Maryland (UMCP) in 1998, investigating the nature of vocal improvisation in experimental music scores.

SRE and the Art of Improvisation

References for a piece I wrote that was adapted for The New Stack (Dec 16, 2021) entitled Site Reliability Engineering and the Art of Improvisation.

• Bailey, Derek (1980). Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music. Da Capo Press.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341932.Improvisation
• Cleese, John (2020). Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide. Hutchinson.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50719532-creativity
• Cook, Richard I.; Woods, DD. (2017). Above the line, below the line: A preview of the SNAFUcatchers Stella Report. Keynote from O’Reilly Velocity Conference, NYC.
  https://www.oreilly.com/radar/above-the-line-below-the-line/
• Cook, Richard I. (2000). How Complex Systems Fail.
  https://how.complexsystems.fail
• Crandall, Beth; Klein, Gary; Hoffman, Robert R. (2006). Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis. MIT Press.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5120871-working-minds
• Dekker, Sydney (2014). The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’. CRC Press.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36517806-the-field-guide-to-understanding-human-error
• Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (1980). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118316.A_Thousand_Plateaus
• Edwards, Robert; Baker, Andrea (2020). Bob’s Guide to Operational Learning: How to Think Like a Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) Coach. Pre-Accident Investigation Media.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56659820-bob-s-guide-to-operational-learning
• Hamzeh, Farook R.; Alhussein, Hasnaa; Faek, Farah (2018). Investigating the Practice of Improvisation in Construction. Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol 34 Issue 6.
  https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000652
• Klein, Gary; Feltovich, Paul; Bradshaw, Jeffrey; Woods, DD. (2005). Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity. Organizational Simulation (pp.139 - 184).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471739448.ch6
• Mendonça, David; Wallace, William A. (2004). Cognition in Jazz Improvisation: An Exploratory Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26.
  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46v6s1qk
• Phillips, Eva C.; Scrinzi, Amy (2013). Basics of developmentally appropriate practice: An introduction for teachers of kindergartners. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053781-basics-of-developmentally-appropriate-practice
• Rasmussen, Jens (1997). Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem. Safety Science, Vol 27, Issues 2–3 (pp. 183 - 213).
  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0925-7535(97)00052-0
• Roud, Ensieh (2021). Collective improvisation in emergency response. Safety Science, Volume 135, March 2021, 105104.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105104
• Shorrock, Steven (2016). The Varieties of Human Work.
  https://humanisticsystems.com/2016/12/05/the-varieties-of-human-work/
• Woods, DD. (2015). Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2015).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2015.03.018

Mendonça

• Cognition in Jazz Improvisation: An Exploratory Study
  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.59.7096

• A Cognitive Model of Improvisation in Emergency Management
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCA.2007.897581

• Factors underlying organizational resilience: The case of power restoration NYC 911
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2015.03.017

Canonne

• Cognition and Segmentation In Collective Free Improvisation: An Exploratory Study
  https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3534.9445

Pressing

• Cognitive processes in improvisation
  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4115(08)62358-4

Page

• Chapter on Improvisation published in Power of Intuition

Weick

• Tool retention and fatalities in wildland fire settings: conceptualizing the naturalistic
  published in: Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making (Page, ed)
  Referenced by Page in Power of Intuition

Hamzeh

• Investigating the Practice of Improvisation in Construction
  https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000652

• Understanding improvisation in construction through antecedents, behaviours and consequences
  https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2018.1497189

Cunha

• Organizational Improvisation: what, when, how and why
  https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2370.00017

• Strategic agility through improvisational capabilities
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100695

• Brave new (paradoxical) world: structure and improvisation in virtual teams
  https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.553

• Strategic agility through improvisational capabilities: Implications for a paradox-sensitive HRM
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2019.100695

• Time and Organizational Improvisation

Kamoche / Cunha

• Towards a Theory of Organizational Improvisation: Looking Beyond the Jazz Metaphor
  https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-6486.2003.00410.x

Grøtan

• Resilience, Adaptation and Improvisation – increasing resilience by organising for successful improvisation
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228896677_Resilience_Adaptation_and_Improvisation-increasing_resilience_by_organising_for_successful_improvisation

Verna

• Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – Three Expressions of a Single Essence
  https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2018/2/10

Sociotechnical Musicology

• Catherine Meyers ::: Mozart Could’ve Been an Engineer"
• Jessica Kerr ::: The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming