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Can agility change the world?
Bridging The Digital Divide
#BeUnlikelyCara Turner South AfricaCOO Agile Coach | Disruptive Educator | Community
Builder
What makes a hero?
What makes a hero?
But we’re too busy…
With the problems in front of us
Scarcity Science
Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
Never Enoughtime, money, trust,
security
No Slack
Constant Anxiety
Poorer decisionsGreater cost of mistakesNo ‘stop & think’ time
Failure demand
Tunneling
More problems to solve
Tradeoffs
“The bandwidth tax”
The Scarcity Trap
Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
“When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage.
If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future.”
Effect of Design
Cockpit Design
One Small Change
One Small ChangefeedbackSupports decision makingeasy to adopt
Agility & Scarcity
Tools & practices that: - improve feedback - support decision-making - easy to adopt
Change Superpowers
The Network Effect
The Network Effect
Downward Spiral
Positive Influences
Upward Spiral
Upward Spiral
The Network Effect
clients
electricity
transport
learning resources
commercial environmentImprovement cycle
family responsibilities
attention
team
security
skills
healthy economy
premises
prioritization
product owner
contract
backlog
release schedule
organization objectives
The Network Effect
clients
electricity
transport
learning resources
commercial environmentImprovement cycle
family responsibilities
attention
team
security
skills
healthy economy
premises
prioritization
product owner
contract
backlog
release schedule
organization objectives
Continual Improvements
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software
by doing it and helping others do it.”
- The Agile Manifesto (2001)
Emerging Tools
User StoriesBehaviour Driven
DevelopmentJobs to Be Done
The right thingDouble Loop Learning
facilitationCollaborationScrum
Motivation
Back of Room TrainingCynefin
Impact MappingDeliberate Discovery
making sense
Relative Estimates Story Mapping
Continuous Delivery
No Estimates
releases MVPLean StartUp
Test Driven DevelopmentPair Programming
coding
Continuous Integration
“We” are uncovering…
Esther Derby, Diana Larson
Ken Schwaeber & Jeff Sutherland
Daniel Pink
Dave Snowden
Gojko AdzicDan North
making sense
Mike Cohn Jeff Patton
Vasco Duarte
releasesFrank Robinson
codingCollaboration
Ron Jeffries
Alan Klement
The right thing
Liz Keogh Eric Ries
Kent BeckWard CunninghamMartin FowlerJez Humble
Jean TabakaSharon Bowman
So what’s next?
Yours to Discover
All Kinds of Heroes
The problem in front of you
All Kinds of Heroes
Challenge: One demographic holds most skills
Equality
Scarcity and Privilege
Justice
Equality
Privilege
“Tall people are just better”System designed for tall people
See advantages as innate, not designed
Justice
“Help short people to be like tall people”System designed for tall people (Workaround)
Equality
“Everyone’s perspective counts”System designed for people
Change the System?
Why do we need this?
Innovation is Social
Diversity Dividend
more likely to report financial returns above their national industry median
The Diversity Dividend - McKinsey 2013
15%
Gender Diversity
35%
Ethnic Diversity
Diversity DividendDiversity + inclusion = improved business
performance.
Gender and racial diversity are often lead indicators of
a healthy organization that is fishing from a deeper pool of talent,
accessing a deeper knowledge bank, and leveraging those resources
throughout the business value chain.
– Deloitte “A Global Diversity Dividend” Resetting horizons: Global human capital trends 2013
But change is hard
“Gestures cost money: to achieve benefits and avoid costs, businesses need to see
diversity as a strategic resource.”
The Business Case for Equality and Diversity Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK
Gov
Sound familiar?
We have a culture of Transformation
We’ve built a community of skills, excellence, expertise
Start the conversation
Change routines:- Mentorship- Change way we recruit- Extend invitations
Use agile skills: - Create a safe space - Talk about the issues
Scarcity & Diversity
Why is it so hard to create a diverse workplace?
Too few appropriately skilled people (currently)
Poverty & Opportunity
Employed: 15,6 m
Not actively seeking work:15,1m
43% 42%
15%
Work seekers: 5,2m
Workforce: 35,9m
Stats SA Q2 2015
Work-seeker Skill Levels
73%
10%17%
Do not qualify: 14,7m
Work Seekers: 2,1m
Not actively seeking work: 3,5m
Broad Unemployment: 20,3mQualify for Tertiary Education: 5,6m
Stats SA Q2 2015
Poverty & Opportunity
Employed: 17,7 m
Not actively seeking work:15,1m
Work seekers: 3,1m
Workforce: 35,9m
49% 42%
9%
Possible Stats 201?
Scarcity: Jobs vs Skills
Agile EducationSoftware
developers
Untapped talent
Agile Education
The Network Effect
learning resourceseducationcommercial environment
career growthfinancial stability
healthy economy employmentsecurity
social supportchildcare
healthcare
transport
foodwaterfamily
responsibilities sanitationprivacy sleep
personal safety electricity
study timeattention
teaching skillsnutrition
The Digital Divide
childcarehealthcare food
electricity
waterfamily responsibilities sanitationprivacy sleep
personal safety
learning resources
career growthfinancial stabilityhealthy economy
securityemployment
social support
educationcommercial environment
study timeattention
teaching skillstransport
nutrition
Bridging
childcarehealthcare food
waterfamily responsibilities sanitationprivacy sleep
personal safety
learning resourcescommercial environment career growth
financial stabilityhealthy economy
securityemployment
social support
education
electricity
study timeattention
teaching skillstransport
nutrition
Agile Education
Pull-based Education
Achievement Unlocked
Conquer Digital Divide
(Our)next challenge:Scaling Agile Training
What’s yours?
Creating Change
Let’s tackle the Wicked Problems
… and find out.
Can Agility Change the World?
#BeUnlikely
Be yourselfRise to challenges
Cara TurnerCape Town, South
Africa
Get in Touch
projectcodeX.co sugsa.org.za
twitter: @cara_fayeslideshare.net/carafaye
The best way to predict the futureis to invent it.
- Alan Kay