Burning Agile
On August 31th the Burning Man festival begins in a temporary city in the Nevada desert.
This one week event started in 1986 and as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. The evolution of Burning Man inevitably led to principles, rules and regulations. Still, after almost 30 years, the event has been able to maintain its original spirit while scaling from a few to 60,000 people.
One can find interesting similarities in what happened and is happening to the Agile “movement”. Unfortunately things are not going so well in the Agile world. People are getting hurt.
This is starting point of my talk Burning Agile – Individuals, Interactions, Scaling and Illusions which I will present in Florence, Italy on November 16 at Better Software 2015, an eclectic conference talking about management and innovation from every possible perspective.