Agile is Politics Power Structures Change Movement

Independence
Devo-Max/Ultra/Nano
Revolution, Evolution
@MartinBurnsSV
http://everydaylean.info
!
Hacking Power
Structures

@MartinBurnsSV

What the HELL?
Why is this idiot talking
in Swedish?
!
Aren’t we supposed to
be talking about
Scotland?
!
Or Software..?
@MartinBurnsSV

DEADLY Warning
I don’t live in Scotland. I don’t have a vote in the
@MartinBurnsSV
referendum.
!
I am using the referendum as a way in to talk about
change in organisations.
!
I am not - not - advocating voting either way.
It’s for Scotland to decide.

Politics and politicians don’t have a
great reputation
@MartinBurnsSV

Things will
start getting better
when we start
treating them as
they are,
not as we’d
like them to be
@drunkcod
@MartinBurnsSV

Agile is Political.
@MartinBurnsSV

A shadow is
haunting Software"
!
!
The shadow of
Agile"

It is high time that Agilists
should openly,
in the face of the whole world,"
!
"
publish their views,
their aims, their tendencies,
and meet this Spectre of Agile

“The struggle of
Class against Class
is a
Political
Struggle”
@MartinBurnsSV

Change
is a
Political
Process
@MartinBurnsSV

One of the penalties
for refusing to
participate in politics is
that you end up being
governed by your
inferiors
Plato
@MartinBurnsSV

We, gathered as the Scottish
Constitutional Convention,
do hereby acknowledge the
sovereign right of the
Scottish people to determine
the form of Government best
suited to their needs,
!
A Claim of Right for
Scotland, 1989
@MartinBurnsSV
Those puny little ants outnumber us
a hundred to one and if they ever
figure that out there goes our way of
life!

Subsidiarity!
!
The principle of
power operating
at the
lowest possible
level.
@MartinBurnsSV
Systems Thinking!
!
Left to themselves,
components become
selfish, competitive.
We cannot afford the
destructive effect.
A system must be
managed.
!
W Edwards Deming

1.Power originates from and
resides in the team.
2.Consciously choose what
power to share with a higher
level system.
3.Do not make it a static
choice.
@MartinBurnsSV

Have Patience
@MartinBurnsSV
!
Build Trust
!
Spot the Moment

When you play the
Game of
Thrones,
you win or
you die.
@MartinBurnsSV

http://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/getting-a-good-feeling/
@MartinBurnsSV

Whataboutery
@MartinBurnsSV

Yes, there are risks.
@MartinBurnsSV
!
But we have the
capability to face them
and overcome.

The secret of
freedom lies in
educating people,
whereas the secret
of tyranny is in
keeping them
ignorant.”
Robespierre
@MartinBurnsSV

Eat Your
Cereal
@MartinBurnsSV

Incumbent power
structures own the means
of communication and
interpretation of events.
!
So they can spin events
any way they way.
Preaching to nobody, or to
the choir can be spun as
being out and engaging in
debate with the nation.
@MartinBurnsSV

@MartinBurnsSV
A very civilly broken egg
by one person can be
spun as howling violent
mobs.

Lesley Riddoch
NewsNet Scotland
@MartinBurnsSV

Nationalists themselves
no longer pretend that
the Yes campaign is
Creating ’us and
them’ culture
bubble feels
their property.
People, especially
Labour people, insist
noisily that their choice
of independence has
great but is
ineffective nothing to do with
in
nationalism. This is
affecting wider
fundamental.
change
Ian Bell,
Sunday Herald 7 Sept
@MartinBurnsSV

Nationalists
themselves no longer
pretend that the Yes
campaign is their
property.
People, especially
Labour people, insist
noisily that their choice
of independence has
nothing to do with
nationalism. This is
fundamental.
Ian Bell,
Sunday Herald 7 Sept
@MartinBurnsSV
Be more than
a campaign
!
Be more than
a community
!
Be a movement

@MartinBurnsSV
Agile is Politics
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Share power thoughtfully
!
Patience and confidence building work.
!
They will fight you, with fear, with
disengagement
Be engaged
Be a movement

”We’re not
genetically
programmed
in Scotland to
make political
decisions”
Johann Lamont
@MartinBurnsSV

Work as if
you are in the
early days of a
better nation.
Alasdair Gray
@MartinBurnsSV
http://nationalcollective.com/manifesto/2014/08/andrew-tickell/

Work as if
you are in the
early days of a
better nation.
Alasdair Gray
@MartinBurnsSV

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