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Agile Teams Prosperity Focused, Values Driven
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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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- 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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- 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 micro-level
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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)
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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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Focus is on prosperity delivered
Each deliverable must have at least one metric of the prosperity it will deliver
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Agile at the macro-level
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Scott's Model
Societal Institutions
Organisational Fields
Organisations
Actors(groups/individuals)
diffuse, impose
diffuse, impose
diffuse, impose
invent,negotiate
interpretinnovateerrorinvent,
negotiate
Limitations of cognitive / social rationalitySelective perception
sanctionbehaviour
invent,negotiate
Societal Institutions
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Biomatrix Systems Thinking(Járos, Cloete, Dostal, 1987+)
Any system (organisation) operates in three interdependent spheres
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- Schalk Cronjé
"Agile is the continuous delivery of prosperity to all stakeholders."
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Where are the stakeholders?
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The boundary of a system is where the connection with stakeholders take place
Biomatrix Systems Thinking(Járos, Cloete, Dostal, 1987+)
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Core Capabilities
PRESENT FUTURE
EXTERNAL
INTERNAL
Shared-problem solving Experimenting and prototyping
Absorbing technical knowledge from the outside
Implementing new technical processes and tools
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Marshall Model
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Agile teams in isolation /
under duress
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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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