Agile With a Purpose

12 January 2012 OlafLewitz

Agile might still be a small niche which apparently is not yet recognised by the “serious” business thinkers’ community. There seem to be people out there who are rethinking management and business for the 21st century, and we are not connected to them although collaboration between us could produce great results.

Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach. Idea Farmer and Linchpin. My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."

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“Happy New Year! 2012 won't know what's hit it”.

                      Dave Sharrock after the agile42 Internal Coach Camp

We want to make Dave’s prediction a reality with the Agile with a Purpose blast (projects don’t hit, right?). We want you to know why we’re doing it.

Prepare to be astonished!

Some Background

Stephen Parry (@leanvoices) said at the ALE2011 conference that he would like to see agile/lean practitioners joining forces, using their distributed open social network to amplify their knowledge of how Agile works and how it should not be used ("to do the wrong things righter" was his lovely phrase).

Last week, we discovered @thinkers50 (the world’s top 50 business thinkers). What struck us was:

1. Why don't more of us know more of them?
2. Maybe we should start talking to them?
3. We should raise the awareness of the agile business thinking.

Agile might still be a small niche which apparently is not yet recognised by the “serious” business thinkers’ community. There seem to be people out there who are rethinking management and business for the 21st century, and we are not connected to them although collaboration between us could produce great results.

We think that by focusing on our community we are missing some of the right people. 

Let’s send the right message!

Our Goal

• Create something that can't be overheard and will be remembered
  and
• Prove that the Anarchy with a Purpose model of organisation works again (ALE2011). 

How we do it

We co-create in our distributed team and humbly let greatness emerge.

We want to be nimble, quick, and effective. 

2012 will not know what's hit it. Thanks Dave!

We already gathered over a dozen people by private invite. In order of commitment:

Can You Join?

Sure! Ping us on Twitter and we’ll add you to a list of volunteers. Team members can pull you in to pair on some work. The first (and currently the only planned) iteration will last two weeks and will start soon, so you might want to be quick.

How to Follow

The Twitter hashtag is #AWAP. What outcome do you expect from this crowd joining their passion for two weeks?