1. 運用AGILE敏捷軟體建構社群
2011
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U
Agile
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http://
www.campsnowball.org •
P.O.S.T. –
‧ Marv Adams (TD
Ameritrade
(http://forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/2007/12/the-post-method.html)
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Glocal
Agile Glocal
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2. Agile
Agile 1. Co-­‐Ini)a)ng
2. Co-­‐Sensing
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· 3. Presencing
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Agile 4. Co-­‐Crea)ng
5. Co-­‐Evolving
(https://
rallyon.rallydev.com/)
Agile
Agile
Agile
U Agile Agile
POST U
Co-Initiating Agile POST
Co-Sensing Presencing
Agile
Co-Creating Agile
Co-Evolving Agile
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3. C P Y E N F O U N D A T I O N
Community Building with Agile
May 2011
This May Dialogue Newsletter tells the story of a group of • After the Camp Snowball event, participants benefit
educators aspiring to transform the way education is taught from ongoing coaching support for personal and
and how they are using Theory U and a software systemic change challenges. A support structure,
development process called “Agile” to build their community. plan, and initial activities are in place before Camp
Snowball starts.
Teachers, administrators, students, parents, community
members, businesses, and government leaders from across
• Students are enrolled as the main drivers of platform
development. If the students get excited about
the globe are gathering this summer in Tuscon, Arizona, at
transforming education, the adults will follow.
an event called “Camp Snowball” (http://
www.campsnowball.org), and intend to build a scaleable • Make it easy to find & use “stuff that really works”
social movement that will shift education from industrial era such as peer reviewed resources and curriculum
paradigms to a systems thinking-based approach which materials.
supports kids as innovators and enables them to become
“systems citizens.” • Awards, recognitions and post criteria are applied to
showcase online contributions about applying or
Systems Citizens are members of a glocal community who accomplishing systemic change.
strive to understand the complexities of today's world and
have the informed capacity to make a difference. The
pragmatism of this idea is expressed well by Marv Adams The brainstorming above was produced by using P.O.S.T. - a
(COO of TD Ameritrade!; former CIO of Citigroup; former way to think through one’s strategy:
CIO and head of Corporate Strategy of Ford Motor
Company):
"Without systems thinking skills, it is impossible to effectively
lead, set direction and execute in senior executive roles
across most industries. Too many leaders, unfortunately,
have emerged with well-developed left brain thinking
methods of management, but underdeveloped right brain,
holistic thinking leadership abilities. Is this dominance of left
brain thinking a result of our schools and our training and
development programs, or is this inherent? If it is not
inherent, then there are few greater areas of leverage for
innovation in education than by developing systems thinking
skills with kids starting from a young age!"
Camp Snowball is the community launch event, following
which the organizers want to build an online platform that will
connect education initiatives and offer support through
ongoing capacity building services. I was invited to think
together with them about what kind of technology would
enable their social movement to scale-up. Highlights from (http://forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/2007/12/the-post-method.html)
Camp Snowball’s current strategy are listed below as an
example of one groups approach to developing social
change and sustainable community: Once the people, objectives and strategy are identified, lastly
consider the technology. Why? Because too often websites
• Build on the relationships formed at Camp Snowball are built first with the belief that community will naturally be
across sectors, school systems, and communities by drawn to it, yet I believe vibrant community and real mission
creating spaces for teams to present and share their realization grows from genuine face-to-face relationships
own work. When diverse teams from different parts and don’t emerge simply because the technology exists.
of the world come together, businesses can connect Global networks function best when they’re connecting
with other businesses; community members connect vibrant local relationships, and doesn’t work well when
with other community members; educators and relationships are based solely on internet exchanges alone.
students can join with other educators and students, “Glocal” to me means, being deeply connected to local
thus reinforcing the learning that is seeded at Camp contexts while also behaving as a member of the global
Snowball. Cross-sectoral relationships highlighting family.
diverse needs and perspectives are also critical for
building creative tension and thereby driving these Briefly below I highlight how aspects of the Agile philosophy
activities to scale. can help Glocal communities realize a shared mission.
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4. The design process for Camp Snowball’s ongoing
Applying Agile to social change community building mimics Theory U and Agile as well. My
involvement was itself a prototype of what facilitating
Agile is used in the software development industry and positive social change and sustainable community
values collaboration and process adaptability throughout a development could look like. This brief newsletter doesn’t
project’s life-cycle. It developed from lean manufacturing: a do justice to the depth of each tool mentioned here, I
process made famous by Toyota’s revival of the Japanese encourage you to look further into Agile, POST, Theory U,
economy after WWII and revolutionized industrial era and Camp Snowball for experimenting with how you too
conventions. Lean manufacturing values getting the best could apply them to your mission!
out of limited investment:
· Build only what is needed
· Eliminate anything which does not add value
· Stop if something goes wrong
Agile grew from this tradition where requirements and
solutions evolved in iterations through collaboration among
small self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Through the
discipline of brief and daily face-to-face communication
where teammates report 1) what was done on the previous
day, what is intend for today, and current roadblocks are, the
community is able to address issues as they arise and adapt
quickly.
This May I attended the first Agile community conference
hosted by Rally Software, a world leader in Agile technology
(https://rallyon.rallydev.com/). Despite being an odd-ball in
the crowd of Agile experts; I listened with the question in
mind: “how can Agile help facilitate positive social change
and sustainable community development in a non-
technology context?” I soon discovered that Agile parallels
remarkably to Theory U.
Theory U and the Agile methodology:
“Co-Initiating”: Agile’s POST process. Understand what the
client really wants.
“Co-Sensing” and “Presencing”: Agile’s daily meetings
where sharing, reflection and sensing the emergent reality
take place.
“Co-Creating”: Agile’s iterative prototypes.
“Co-Evolving” Agile’s delivery stage where user experience
is integrated into ongoing project work.
*Read more about the U Theory in April’s Dialogue
Newsletter.
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