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Freedom within bureaucracy, or reaching hackstability

Freedom within bureacracy

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Page 1: Freedom within bureacracy

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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