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Written by Mishkin Berteig

Buy mega hoodia without prescription, Last week I taught an introductory course on Agile Work. Normally this is pretty easy stuff. However, no rx mega hoodia, I was teaching this course in Bucharest, Mega hoodia price, Romania (cool), and I have come across a substantial, strong and vigorous objection to agile (also cool, buy mega hoodia in us, but challenging too). Mega hoodia medicine, Several people in my class are asserting that agile is just like communism and since communism failed, agile is not likely to succeed either. I'm looking for help on this, low price mega hoodia.

I have Googled "agile communism" and come up with some interesting reading:

Does Scrum/XP Violate the Agile Manifesto?
The Agile Method and Other Fairy Tales: QED

I have also done some quick research on communism to check that I understand the comparison and objection, buy mega hoodia without prescription. Here is a wiktionary definition of communism:

1. Mega hoodia without prescription, A term used to refer to a number of political philosophies or ideologies which share the belief in the virtue of holding the production resources collectively.
2. A society organized in line with the communist theories, buy mega hoodia canada, the ultimate aim of which is the abolition of the state and the creation of a classless, Cheap mega hoodia in usa, stateless society whose members produce according to their abilities and take what they need.

Buy mega hoodia without prescription, So let's start with that definition.

Holding Production Resources Collectively
Also called: common ownership of the means of production

I suppose there are a few ways to look at this. In an agile environment which encourages (for example) collective code ownership, lowest price for mega hoodia, it might seem like holding the production resources collectively. Order mega hoodia, However, the code is actually the result of production, rather than the Means of Production, mega hoodia overnight shipping. This distinction is not trivial. The means of production for a team in an agile environment still include both the tools and the raw materials upon which those tools exercise, buy mega hoodia without prescription. Drug mega hoodia, In software development (and in most creative work nowadays), the tools are computers and software and other electronic gadgets such as video cameras, telecomm systems, order discount mega hoodia online, etc. Cheap mega hoodia from usa, The raw materials are typically intellectual constructs such as images, sounds, ideas, order mega hoodia from us, processes (and of course their legal counterparts such as trademarks, Order mega hoodia from canada, copyrights, and patents). Agile methods do not require the team of workers to own these means, mega hoodia order, nor do agile methods forbid workers from owning these means. Pharmacy mega hoodia, In fact, There is one important way in which agile methods are decidedly not communist: every individual owns their own creativity, experience, order discount mega hoodia, and knowledge and is only asked to share willingly (and usually in exchange for pay such as salary, Price of mega hoodia, stock options or outright corporate ownership). I believe this passage clarifies things nicely:

Buy mega hoodia without prescription, Marxists define economic systems in terms of how the means of production are used, and which social class controls them. Thus, in capitalism, mega hoodia pill, the means of production are controlled by the bourgeoisie, Order generic mega hoodia, (the "capitalists" - the owners of capital), while in socialism they are controlled by the people's elected representatives and in communism they are controlled collectively by the people themselves. [Means of Production]

Agile methods, if anything, mega hoodia cheapest price, tend towards capitalism in this regard. Mega hoodia tablets, (Although a whole other question could be asked about just how much control the owners of a corporation really have given delegated authority through the board of directors to the chief executive staff _and_ the abrogated authority through mutual funds, pension funds, holding companies, buy cheapest mega hoodia on line, and trusts _and_ the limitations on that control through the blunt instrument of voting shares _and_ the influences on that control through the control of information by financial analysts and the media...)

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Well, this certainly isn't the aim of agile methods that I am aware of. The aims of agile methods as I understand them includes:

Building stuff that stakeholders like

Creating an environment for team members to exercise their creativity

Doing all this in a way that responds well to pervasive frequent change

Again, buy mega hoodia overnight delivery, I can understand why there might be some confusion here. Mega hoodia professional, Agile methods promote these three aims by doing something that looks just a little like a classless organizational structure. Typically, agile (and lean) environments start to have a higher manager to staff ratio (fewer managers), encourage self-organizing, cross-functional teams, and emphasize team goal setting, commitment and accountability, buy mega hoodia without prescription. This might seem classless (and stateless/managementless) until one examines what is not said: Agile does not claim that every team member is exactly equal, it does not require that every team member do exactly the same thing, find mega hoodia on internet, it does not require that every team member give up _all_ their individual preferences (although certainly it would be hard for someone who didn't like talking to other people to be part of an agile team... Mega hoodia internet, so I guess some individual preferences won't work in an agile team), it does not encourage every team member to do exactly the same amount of work regardless of if you are measuring effort or output.

Now admittedly, buy mega hoodia without prescription, when I am presenting examples of self-organizing teams, Best price for mega hoodia, I do sometimes use examples that come close to classless stateless teams... but that's just to show that this is a possibility and allowable in an agile environment, not that it is the only way, mega hoodia free delivery. Buy mega hoodia without prescription, Those practices in agile methods that do seem like classlessness and statelessness are not aims... they are means. Cheap mega hoodia no rx, A self-organizing, self-managing team, is means to an end, mega hoodia cheap. It is not an aim in itself. Cheapest generic mega hoodia online, Why does this matter. For the simple reason that it is always bad to confuse means and ends, buy mega hoodia without prescription. The end cannot justify the means (classlessness and statelessness imposed by revolution)... and nor can the means justify the ends (classlessness and statelessness that results in apathy, purchase mega hoodia no rx, boredom and low productivity). Mega hoodia without a prescription, So the fact that self-organization is a means is a way for us to decide if it is worthwhile. The evidence for self-organizing teams in a business context is strong (lots of links and articles and books on this blog as well as others). Buy mega hoodia without prescription, Most team members enjoy being self-directed in a way that is collaborative with other professionals. So both the ends are good - productivity - and the means are good - happy people, order no rx mega hoodia.

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To me, Canadian mega hoodia, "produce according to their abilities" sounds a lot like a tautology. Certainly, team members can produce no more than their abilities. From an agile perspective, this isn't even what we are interested in... we are interested in the multiplicative effect of teams of people working together effectively so that the result of the work is greater than the sum of the individual abilities, buy mega hoodia without prescription. There is now substantial evidence that this is not just possible, but a likely outcome of group work (see Research on Group Effectiveness vs Individuals among many others). My favorite phrase for this is "Unity in Diversity" which describes a group of people who have united around a common goal, but with each individual having talents, experiences, knowledge, patterns of behavior, and insights that are all different from each other.

The second part of the phrase "take what they need" is another piece of this pie that has absolutely no relationship to agile methods. Again, there is evidence that this is specifically not supported. Lean methods encourage compensation that is based on a number of things including: contribution to results in one's sphere of influence Buy mega hoodia without prescription, (rather than the more limited sphere of responsibility) and the number of skills you have mastered and use to contribute to the work.

Disconnecting reward from results is an obvious problem. While people do have altruistic feelings, we also are clearly motivated by praise

Some SimilaritiesOne of the attendees of the course, a woman by the name of Christina, provided me with some notes based on her understanding of Agile and Communism and she listed these similarities:

They both rely on participation, rather than executing orders.

One aim is less frustration.

They use some similar phrases such as multidisciplinary / cross-functional.

They both ask people to evaluate each other.

And What about Reality?

Well, I haven't lived in a communist environment so I admit that my ability to talk intelligently about this is not what I would like it to be. I am interested in people out there who might be able to help me with this.

Here are some questions for people who have actually experienced communism:

What are the actual, in-practice similarities between agile and communism?

What are the in-practice differences between agile and communism?

Why did communism fail and how might this affect the success of agile methods?

How can we safeguard agile from falling into the same problems?

Can anyone out there help please.

Posted in Links to Agile Info, Theory of Agile - Tagged Culture, Ideas

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Dmitri is only looking at one side of the cost/benefit equation. Buy pro-erex online without prescription, He's laid out a very convincing argument why Sarah should not interrupt her carefully planned two week iteration, but he hasn't even mentioned arguments for the other side: the important sale that will be lost.

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Let's look at that argument from the perspective of the sales person first since that is where Joel's concern starts:

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Let's suppose that this urgent email has come in somewhere near the start of our two week iteration, buy pro-erex without prescription. Purchase pro-erex, The normal response to this in Scrum is to push back a little. The ScrumMaster says something to the effect of: "Look if you wait 7 days we can put this on the top of the list for our next iteration."

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Turns out that the potential benefit of the stuff Sales Guy wants is not quite as high as the potential benefit of the stuff that Suzie Stakeholder prioritized for the current iteration. Well, that's easy, cheapest pro-erex prices. Put the request from Sales Guy in our prioritized list of work and get to it when there is an appropriate level of benefit relative to the other work. Discount pro-erex overnight delivery, Cancel the Iteration

The stuff Sales Guy wants is super-valuable. Buy pro-erex without prescription, So let's get the whole team to stop what they are doing and everyone supports this very valuble work. Stopping the whole team is appropriate because obvioulsy, the stuff they're working on isn't as valuable, pro-erex order. Oh, Buy discount pro-erex, and because we treat a team as a unit in Scrum. And because the team needs to commit to work, not individuals, pro-erex overnight delivery. This isn't so obvious... more later, buy pro-erex without prescription. Cheapest pro-erex price, Peel Sarah off to do the 'ezhibal' Feature

This is what normally happens, and in a "normal" non-agile environment, it's probably okay, generic pro-erex online. In a non-agile environment, Buying generic pro-erex, Sarah hasn't made any commitments (she's been forced to agree to dates and scope, etc., but she hasn't made a commitment that she is empowered to live up to), cost pro-erex. So if she goes off and does this one little thing, Fda approved pro-erex, it probably will be just business as usual. In an agile environment, the team has made a commitment and doing this work this way invalidates the team's commitment, pro-erex tablet.

Buy pro-erex without prescription, Why do we do it this way. The main reason is around trust and commitment. Buy pro-erex in canada, Yup, it's that soft icky stuff that we're so incredibly bad at that customers think that bugs are normal, that management shoves the kitchen sink into projects in the frustrated hope that they'll get something out of the IT team at the end of the project, generic pro-erex. Sound familiar to anyone?Anyway. Pro-erex information, An iteration is a commitment. It is a firm and solid commitment, buy pro-erex without prescription. The team as a group of smart and honorable people is making a definite commitment to the rest of the organization to get a certain amount of work done in a fixed amount of time. In return, buy pro-erex once daily, management is agreeing to give the team every support in reaching this commitment. Cheap pro-erex tablet, When a team is new at this, they might get it wrong. But having done this with dozens of teams now, pro-erex australia, I know that after a few tries, Order discount pro-erex, the team gets the hang of it and commits to appropriate amounts of work, and management provides appropriate levels of support. Buy pro-erex without prescription, This commitment is essential for developing trust. And anything that comes in the way of the team meeting its commitment is considered "BAD", order cheap pro-erex online. An obstacle to do away with. Cheap pro-erex no rx, This is interesting, because Joel's second example is about defects. And I strongly agree that defects are "BAD" and need to be dealt with at a very high level of priority, buy no rx pro-erex. The reason is simple: they prevent a team from meeting its commitment, buy pro-erex without prescription.

One team I was coaching was constantly bombarded by these types of it'll-just-take-a-few-minutes-need-it-asap requests. They had many stakeholders and very very limited resources to service these requests. They had several small projects that were taking literally years to do because they couldn't get enough concentrated time on any one thing. This was considered normal and good in their environment.The trouble is, no one had really looked at the overall consequences. Buy pro-erex without prescription, Everyone was doing local optimization. For us geeks, we all know that local optimization is something to be avoided if possible. We climb a peak only to discover that we have to climb back down a ways to get up to the higher peak we now see is next to this one. We climb up that one only to discover yet another higher peak even further along thus requiring us to climb down and up again... When really what we should have done is stepped back a ways, looked at the lay of the land and said, "hey, that peak over there is the highest of them all, let's go climb that one."

Scrum helps us avoid local optimization by forcing all feature requests for a team to be prioritized in a list of work, and by allowing the team to complete small pieces of work so it actually gets _something_ done that you can learn from.

Joel said:

Agile is not supposed to be about swapping out one set of bureaucratic, rigid procedures for another equally rigid set of procedures that still doesn't take customer's needs into account.

True enough, buy pro-erex without prescription. But it also demonstrates a serious lack of understanding about what is being done in Dmitri's example. First of all, without being agile at all, it is possible to switch from 18 month projects to two week projects. Both can be bureaucratic as you please (well, actually, there's only so much bureaucracy you can cram into two weeks and still get something done). The shorter projects will allow you to be much more responsive to customer needs... Buy pro-erex without prescription, by definition.

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I admit that the point Joel is making isn't too different. Yes: look at the costs and the benefits. But agile isn't quite about instantaneous responsiveness. That's a red herring and I'm suprised that Joel threw it's stinky carcass into the discussion. Agile is also about balancing that responsiveness with the overall view of value for the team and the organization. The tool for doing that is the prioritized list of work, not the email message from Sales Guy to Sarah.

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I know I might be making a big deal about a little point, but I think that if we forget that dollars are the means, buy pyridium on line, Buy pyridium no rx, not the end, then we get lost very very easily, pyridium cheap drug. Pyridium without rx, Agile is both means and end. It is about doing good work in a trust-building environment, order pyridium cheap online. Cost of pyridium, It is about teams aspiring to the best service they can possibly give for their time, not just to be paid, buy pyridium online australia, Pyridium medicine, but to derive the satisfaction of having created something that someone else values.

This is why the Agile Axioms Buy pyridium without prescription, are so important. The moment we lose sight of these axioms and start to treat Agile Work as if it was just a set of practices (no matter how effective) is the moment that it becomes un-agile and I no longer wish to be involved, cheapest generic pyridium online. Overnight pyridium, Now admittedly, as far as coaches go, pyridium india, Buying pyridium, I'm probably a little on the side of "impose the process and learn" rather than "learn and grow the process". But I'm not at the point of "the process is perfect - thou shalt not change it" and I'm very comfortable working with other coaches who are more on the learn-first side of things, pyridium pills. Purchase pyridium overnight delivery,

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This brings up another interesting experience I had recently.

I was working in the United States for a few weeks on a management consulting engagement related to an enterprise rollout of agile. The business development person I was working with (let's call him Ed) told me a story about meeting with the CIO of a large oganization, buy pyridium without prescription. The CIO complained about having to spend two years getting rid of the previous "religion" in the company about how to get things done. He was obviously concerned that adopting Agile would put him in the situation of having another religion around.

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If you don't believe these things, then you can't be agile.

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The Table of Contents

The chapter and section titles of this book tell a great deal about the scope of the work. I have reproduced the table of contents here for your reference.

Chapter 1 The Problem- The complexity of the World- Mechanism and Mechanics- The Square Law of Computation- The Simplificiation of Science and the Science of Simplification- Statistical Mechanics and the Law of Large Numbers- The Law of Medium Numbers

Chapter 2 The Approach- Organism, Analogy, and Vitalism- The Scientist and His Categories- The Main Article of General Systems Faith- The Nature of General Systems Laws- Varieties of Systems Thinking

Chapter 3 System and Illusion- A System Is a Way of Looking at the World- Absolute and Relative Thinking- A System is a Set- Observers and Observations- The Principle of Indifference

Chapter 4 Interpreting Observations- States- The Eye-Brain Law- The Generalized Thermodynamic Law- Functional Notation and Reductionist Thought- Incompleteness and Overcompleteness- The Generalized Law of Complementarity

Chapter 5 Breaking Down Observations- The Metaphors of Science- Boundaries and Things- Qualities and the Principle of Invariance- Partitions- The Strong Connection Law

Chapter 6 Describing Behavior- Simulation - The White Box- State Spaces- Time as a Standard of Behavior- Behavior in Open Systems- The Principle of Indeterminability

Chapter 7 Some Systems Questions- The Systems Triumvirate- Stability- Survival- Identity- Regulation and Adaptation- The Used Car Law

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Capabilities:- promoting collaboration in challenging circumstances- searching for truth/a solution relentlessly- honesty and trustworthiness- a learning attitude (proactive and learning from mistakes)- humility and assertiveness- guiding people without controlling them- detachment (ability to step out of a situation)- an attitude of service without expecting recompense- understanding of transformative learning- conflict resolution as learning (not negotiation)- encouraging creativity

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Once the experience of the student has been validated and her needs established, canada motrin, Find motrin on internet, education should be challenging but not obtrusive and challenges must be presented with respect and encouragement. Encouragement versus excessive criticism leads to individual initiative instead of paralysis, canadian motrin. Motrin online without prescription, The natural result of an encouraging and challenging learning environment is self-discipline and self-correction instead of external discipline (control) and constant external correction. Purchase motrin without prescription, A transformative, holistic approach centred in humility and service

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With humility at the centre of all learning, the purpose of education becomes transformation. Motrin online without prescription, We learn so that we, our communities and our institutions can improve and change for the better. Also as learning is applied to community efforts, individual capacity unfolds and is developed. Learning for its own sake is valuable, but learning for positive social change, makes the acquisition of knowledge, skills and insights relevant and engaging in the face of community development challenges. Learning then becomes intimately connected with action and is corrected and refined through action. This infuses a powerful sense of purpose and meaning in the learning process, especially as successes are realized.

Principle-based approach facilitates ownership

Education should cultivate a sense of personal ownership in the learning process and community life, motrin online without prescription. Fostering a sense of personal ownership comes with educating students to have a mature perspective about their own learning as well as the changes they desire to implement in the community. It involves helping students learn the capability of â€˜becomingâ€™ the change that they want to see, as well as finding positive starting points in desperate situations and building on them. A mature outlook demands that students have a principle-based approach to problem solving versus a rule-based approach. Education then becomes not only a process of acquiring knowledge but centred on capacity building for individuals, institutions and groups. Motrin online without prescription, Fostering the development of capacities needed to overcome obstacles also requires a principle-based approach, embodying principles such as perseverance, human rights and dignity, building unity in diversity etc.

Integration and balance of methods essentialEducation should be methodical and balanced. It should aim to acknowledge, validate and employ different learning paradigms: those of science, spirituality, culture and the arts. Systems of education that value science above the arts or spirituality are destructive to the individual and community as they create an imbalanced view of the world and rob people of a diversity of perspectives and tools that they need to face complex challenges. An educational program should strive to address the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of students and not focus too much on merely one dimension of life. This is especially important in communities that have experienced extreme marginalization (colonization, oppression) where healing and wellness must play a significant role in the learning process, motrin online without prescription.
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A key ingredient to success in transformational education is the example of the educator. As people, naturally we do what we know and what we have experienced. In order to change our patterns of behavior we need to begin having fundamentally different experiences than what we have known. The educator must be able to assist in the creation of such experiences. Motrin online without prescription, To do this she must be capable of modelling what is being taught and through constant critical self-reflection strive to exemplify in every action empowering ideals.

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Learning and education are indispensable to all community efforts for positive change. The job of an adult educator is to assist individuals, the community and its institutions to adopt a posture of learning. This begins with working with the experience of the student, fostering self-directed learning and follows as the teacher interacts with the student to challenge and assist her to new levels of learning. With humility at the centre of all learning efforts, dependency on â€œexpertsâ€ can be replaced with volition and independent decision-making. The potential of the individual further unfolds as she applies her learning to service to the community. Attention to capacity building and cultivating a sense of personal ownership -in the process of learning and community building- deepens the experience and truly engages the student in taking an active role in the development of her life. Utilizing all systems of learning in the education process ensures balance of methods and helps cultivate the infinite and diverse capabilities of human potential. Ultimately the success of an educator rests on the degree to which she is able to model the change she is fostering.

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