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Slides from session I delivered at Scrum Gathering India 2013. A forwarding-looking presentation challenging technology organisations (especially software tech) to look outside of their teams and their organisations and to consider the real impact of their work.
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© Schalk W. Cronjé SGI 2013
Prosperity Focused Agile Technology Leadership
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Agile has many faces
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- Schalk Cronjé
"Agile is the continuous delivery of prosperity to all stakeholders."
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity
Prosperity: the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune and / or successful social status. Includes independent factors of wealth, happiness and health.
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- Johnny Clegg : In My African Dream
"The revolution has eaten its childrenI see the river of dreams run dry."
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- George Santayana 1863- 1952
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
"All this has happened before. All this will happen again"
- Pythia, Battlestar Galactica
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Biomatrix Systems Thinking (Járos, Cloete, Dostal, 1987+)
Any system (organisation) operates in three interdependent spheres
The boundary of a system is where theconnection with the stakeholders take place
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Every system has an ethos
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- http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/values.html
Values: Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable.
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Agile at the macro-level
organisational self
direct stakeholders
earth (environment)
society
democracy
politics
transnational crime
The Social Contract with Business(Jopie Coetzee 2012)
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- Amen-em-apt(Egyptian philosopher, ~700BC)
"A pilot who sees from afar will not make his boat a wreck."
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- Sun Tzu, The Art of War(~ 512 BC)
"Do the difficult whilst it is easy"
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- Eclesiastes 4:9-10; KJV Translation(Origins ~ 971-931 BC)
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
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- KautilyanArtashastra 7.12.13
(Origins ~300BC - 150AD)
More low-value productions (at low cost), rather than few high-value productions (at high cost)
http://savinginnovation.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/idea-mining.jpg
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- Proverbs 11:25; NIV Translation(Origins ~ 971-931 BC)
"A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed"
"The measure of difference between the two in terms of true pleasure is that the philosopher king lives seven hundred and twenty-nine times more pleasantly than the tyrant king"
- Plato: The Republic(~ 380 BC)
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Measurements are not a substitute for common sense
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Focus on prosperity delivered
Acknowledge globalisation(inclusive or destructive)
Higher-order decision-making capability to enable holistic
stakeholder prosperity
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