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Freedom within bureacracy
- 1. Freedom within bureaucracy, orreaching hackstability
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- 4. 5 minutes • Yay!Groups of 4! • Create sticky notes with commonalities between barbarians and people practicing agile software development • Create sticky notes with commonalities between civilizations and large organisations
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- 6. Civilizations and largeorganisations = Bureaucracy
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- 8. David Graeber: A mechanismfor the efficient extraction of value, ultimately resting on the threat of violence
- 9. Sociopaths Clueless Losers The McLeod hierarchy,or the average bureaucracy
- 11. Why the Asterix& Obelix village never became a roman empire Clueless!!! Clueless Losers
- 12. Guess what? Julius isa barbarian too!
- 13. The roman empirelasted 507 years
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- 15. The difference Exploration • Barbarian •Finding a business model • Complex domain • Value discovery • Creativity and collaboration • Bottom-up intelligence Exploitation • Bureaucracy/Civilization • Running a business model • Complicated domain • Value extraction • Rules and Procedures • Top-down control
- 16. “You never changethings by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
- 17. The cycle isspeeding up!
- 19. Barriers of entryare lowering through technology and human mobility
- 20. Villages of barbariansturn into roman empires, not the other way around Let’s make the organization agile! Don’t be clueless!
- 21. Empire’s survival challenge: Howdo you encapsulate small barbarian villages and benefit from their exploration and discovery?
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- 23. Increasingly fast explore- exploitcycles (hacks), moving into a non-utopian, messy equilibrium of civilized and barbarian tendencies
- 24. Both is necessary, Strikea balance!
- 25. 5 minutes • Yay!Groups of 4! • What are the implications of this for me doing Agile Software Development?
- 26. For me personally •Don’t try to change organisations that have an exploitation purpose (most do) • Don’t fight bureacracy, it serves a purpose • Find your barbarians of the exploring variety, not the rent-seeking kind • Stay in areas where the cycle can speed up • Conquest is always from within
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Editor's Notes
- #3Â Barbarians have been here forever (the huns, the mongols, the scottish clan) Responsible for a lot of inventions
- #4Â Rome, the ultimate civilizational archetype
- #5Â Barbarian/agile: Conquest Low ceremony Leadership Streetsmart Discovery Flexible Swift Nimble Civilications/large organisations Control Procedures Rules Static Hierarchical
- #6 Let’s frame this agile versus bureacracy
- #7Â Bureacracy is everywhere Not just government, companies are just as bad They are interwoven
- #8Â Do we examine the purpose of bureacracy? Do we think about the implications of it? Could we do without?
- #9Â Bureacracy serves a purpose. Easily repeatable value extraction Intelligence no longer needed Just operate the machinery Ultimately rests on the threat of violence The violence is invisible, as opposed to barbarians It has invaded our civilizations If ever there was a Matrix, this is it
- #10Â The office according to the Office: Explain Ask if people have questions?
- #11Â Explain, ask if people have questions
- #13Â Of the rent-seeking variety
- #15Â Fractal cycle Everything is from within nowadays
- #19Â Might stabilize
- #20Â Improved communication Improved job mobility Improved geographical mobility Lower marginal costs to start with, sometimes converging to zero Large machinery slows speeding up the cycle
- #21 Do not misunderstand the purpose of an organisation Don’t be clueless!
- #22Â This is why our stories are so appealing! But mind you, there looking for ways to augment their capabilities, not replace them
- #23Â Speeding explore exploit cycle Tinkering walhalla A hack is a creative local exploit