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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Prosperity Focused
Agile Technology Leadership
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Levelsofdecision-making→
GLASS CEILING
GLASS CEILING
ImaginingBeliefThinkingIntelligence
Plato's (~380BC) level of thought ↑
Opinion-basedthoughtsKnowledge-basedthoughts
ShuHaRi

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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 children
I 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 the
connection 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)
Stakeholdersinaworldofinclusiveglobalisation
global commons

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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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- Kautilyan
Artashastra 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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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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