freedom within bureacracy
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Freedom within bureaucracy, or reaching hackstability
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Meet barbarians
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Meet civilisations
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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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Agile Bureaucracy
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Civilizations and large organisations =
Bureaucracy
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What is bureaucracy?
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David Graeber:A mechanism for the efficient extraction of value,
ultimately resting on the threat of violence
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Sociopaths
Clueless
Losers
The McLeod hierarchy, or the average bureaucracy
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Why the Asterix & Obelix village never became a roman empire
Clueless!!!
CluelessLosers
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Guess what?Julius is a barbarian too!
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The roman empire lasted 507 years
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Explore-Exploit
Barbarians explore
Barbarians discover
Barbarians exploit
Barbarians exploit
efficiently
Barbarians abandon
Bureaucracy
Agile
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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
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
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The cycle is speeding up!
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Barriers of entry are lowering through
technology and human mobility
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Villages of barbarians turn into roman empires, not the other way around
Let’s make the organization agile!Don’t be clueless!
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Empire’s survival challenge:
How do you encapsulate small barbarian villages and benefit from their exploration and discovery?
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Hackstability
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Increasingly fast explore-exploit cycles (hacks), moving into a non-utopian, messy equilibrium of civilized and barbarian tendencies
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Both is necessary,Strike a balance!
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5 minutes
• Yay! Groups of 4!• What are the implications of this for me doing
Agile Software Development?
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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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