Puppet for Human Beings (NOT!)

Aslam Khan
Aslam Khanco-founder - FoldLeft at FoldLeft
This is NOT
a puppet talk
@aslamkhn
(don’t be a puppet … strings are not good for you)
“ – Pink Floyd
Hello,
Is there anybody in there
Nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home
some of us dream
some dreams
become ideas
and we have
the power
to make dreams
come true
we can
make ideas real
can we
handle that?
do we dare to dream?
do we dare to design?
to make our
dreams come true
our dreams
must die
to give birth to a reality
because
we dared to dream
and we dared to
create
and we dared to
give life to our thought
yet
“ – Pink Floyd
The sun is the same in a relative way
but we're older
running over the same old ground
the same old fears
what was our idea
is now a reality
and it grows
and grows
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
servers
provision
clone
provision
clone
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we want more
we do more
we want more
we scale because
we can
our reality is bigger
than our idea
our dream is dead
our reality
consumes us
we are its host
it needs more
and so…
hire
hire
hire
recruit
recruit
recruit
clone
clone
clone
after a while
“ – Pink Floyd
we're just
another brick in the wall
our ideas
are tragedies
we clone servers
we clone people
we rob us
of our senses
we make us
incapable of feeling
we are remote
controlled
by process
methodology
a science of
management
by systems and isms
for a reality
that outgrew
a dream
it is time to…
“ – The Doors
break on through through to the side
we don’t need
no preachers
no politicians
no remote control
but we are geeks
and we suffer from
man machine love
man machine
love
do we dare to love?
after a while
it feels like
“ – Jimi Hendrix
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky
and that which
makes us sad
makes us happy
life is a duality
which side I see
is my choice
when we see the
same side
it is a moment shared
only a moment is
infinite
when we see
opposite sides
then we think
we’re in conflict
we scale conflict
all too easily
and I don’t know why!
all we need
is a shift in attitude
a shift in
perspective
to see that
duality
from the other side
we call that
empathy
it starts with
awareness
“ – Johnny Clegg
Magic machine cannot match
Human being human being
African idea -- make the future clear
ubuntu
an African idea
I exist
because
you exist
and
we are
different
our values
stack differently
it shouldn't
matter
“ – Nirvana
Come
As you are
As you were
As I want you to be
As a friend
As an old enemy
that is all we are
we are unique
we cannot be cloned
we cannot
be jacked in
remote controlled
but can you
feel it?
“ – Bob Dylan
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones ?
after decades
of process
and methodology
of agile folly
being sold
the dream
of the team
in the small
and at
scale
from XP
and Scrum
now
Kanban
DAD
and
SAFe
but it is just
Taylorism
in disguise
!
most teams
work
superficially well
or
are
toxically dysfunctional
why?
because we
are told
to leave
our baggage
at the door
!
that which
defines me
will be ignored
we are
incapable
of leaving our
uniqueness aside
the part that is me
prevents us
from scaling
like clones
!
we scale
with diversity
embrace
our diversity
that is the revolution
that is inside us
it cannot
be suppressed
it cannot
be avoided
“ – Gil Scott-Heron
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
if all we want
is happiness
to be content
THEN…
what is the basis
for our dispute?
“ – Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction, you may end up
where you are heading.
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