Session Title : Leading through Being and Making - How India can improve global Agility? Session Overview : The Agile Manifesto begins with a declaration that there are better ways of developing things that were found by "doing it and help others do it". Later on, many experts decided that the better ways required "being agile": having the right mindset, a compatible culture, and scaling appropriately were the pathways to creating value. Is this the best way to lead people to learn better ways of creating value? The answer to that question goes deeper than learning a slew of frameworks and methods offered through training courses. India is the great fertile ground for agility on Earth. By drawing on the strengths of its own civilization, owning its own future, and mastering the fundamentals, India can help the world improve through agility on a global basis. This talk will bring us back to the Agile Manifesto and reveal how learning through making opens access to deeper levels of being, which in turn push and move our capacity to create vast amounts of value for all. Throughout this talk will be a challenge to attendees to identify something to make in their world, and to use that to transform how they learn and teach and influence others to do the same.

1. Let is take our stand on the one central truth:
the spirit of man, the immortal, birthless,
all-pervading eternal soul of man…before
who’s
majesty the universe is as a drop. Every man or
woman is such a spirit evoluted or involuted.
The infinite power of that spirit, brought to
bear upon matter evolves material development,
made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality,
and made to act upon itself makes of man a God

2. First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be
Gods.
“Be and make”. Let this be our motto. Say not
a man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God.

3. My method of work is to construct, not to pull
down

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5. Tukwila, Washington, USA
Home.

6. Berlin, Germany
November 19, 2015

7. Why won’t it work?

8. Software Developers Are Everywhere
By Region
Americas 32.59%
EMEA 30.39%
Asia/Pacific 37.02%
By Country
United States 19.2%
China 10.1
India 9.8%
2014: 18,539,500 developers worldwide
Source: IDC “2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates”

9. More software developers in India than the US in 2017
Source: IDC “2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates”

10. Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India

11. Source:Hitesh Kumar Sahoo
http://infohitesh.blogspot.com

12. Why India is the great
fertile ground for agility…
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Zest For Learning Comfort With Chaos
and Ambiguity
…at scale!!!!

13. “At the core […] is the idea
that people should design
for themselves their own
houses, streets and
communities. This idea […]
comes simply from the
observation that most of the
wonderful places of the
world were not made by
architects but by the
people.”
- Christopher Alexander

14. “Living structure, or living order,
depends on features which make a
close connection with the human self.”
“…our analytical thinking selves, and
our vulnerable emotional personalities
as human beings - are coterminous,
and must be harnessed at one and the
same time, if we are ever to really
make sense of what is around us, and
be able to create a living world.”
“…a spiritual, emotional, and personal
basis must underlie every act of
building or making.”

15. 15 Fundamental
Properties
#1 : Levels of Scale
“Levels of scale exist along with a scaling
hierarchy. Repeating components of the
same size and similar shape define one scale.
Levels of scale have to be spaced closely
enough in size” (magnification) for
coherence, but not too close to blur the
distinction between nearby scales” - Nikos
Salingaros

16. ― Dr. Jeff Sutherland
“As a medical school professor funded for many years by the
US National Institutes of Health to study the evolution of the
human cell, I designed Scrum to Scale like a biological
organism from a single cell.”
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17. Scale-Free Architecture
• If you want to scale exponentially you
need a “scale-free” architecture
• Otherwise you risk introducing waste into
the system and slowing the whole
organization down
• You will not achieve linear scalability
• Scale-free architectures are pervasive
in biology (ex. neural networks)
• They are able to evolve to perform
new functions more rapidly than an
alternative network design
Diagram of a scale-free network that contains components with
a highly diverse level of connectivity. Some components form
highly interconnected hubs, while other components have few
connections, and there are many levels of interconnectivity in
between. Scale-free networks are pervasive in biology.
Computer simulations at the University of Chicago show that
scale-free networks are able to evolve to perform new functions
more rapidly than an alternative network design.
Source: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/061207/darwin.shtml
Digital Darwinian world reveals architecture of evolution
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18. Why India is the great
fertile ground for agility…
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Zest For Learning
Seeking out value
Comfort With Chaos
and Ambiguity
Scaling Freely

19. I am not given much to talking
about plans. I prefer to do and
show, and then talk about my
plans.

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21. Live a live!!!
Add people!!!

22. Life is short, but the soul is immortal and
eternal, and one thing being certain, death,
let us take up a great ideal, and give up our
whole life to it.

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“Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation
is sustained change and it is achieved through practice” – BKS Iyengar

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Never loose the groove
in order to find the right note.
-- Victor Wooten

25. Live a life!
Add people!
Always make value!
Iterate! Iterate!

26. “I would like to see India free and
strong so that she may offer herself as
a willing and pure sacrifice for the
betterment of the world. The
individual being pure, sacrifices himself
for the family, the latter for the village,
the village for the district, the district
for the province, and province for the
nation, the nation for all. I want
Khudai Raj, which is the same thing as
the kingdom of God on earth. The
establishment of such a Rajya would
not only mean welfare of the whole
Indian people, but of the whole world”