It’s important to understand and promote that agile is not simply a “new” methodology, but rather it’s a true paradigm shift that for it to be truly successful it needs to change not only development teams but organizations as a whole.

It’s challenging and rewarding to be part of this.

I strongly believe we are all observers of a real paradigm shift.

As a software developer , I am not working in a company that accepted Agile philosophies. But I am able to read and try to learn about the philosophy(ies) around. The way that they described the human communication and collaboration is really amazed me. The plexus story link also contains a great sentence from Albert Einstein , that I would like to paste here.

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” Albert Einstein

I really appreciate for this post, help me to enlighten more.

I don’t have found it to be about Authoritarian scrum boorstrapping versus compassionate boorstrapping. But if you are interested in discipline as a way to safely explore, experiment and learn I strongly raccomend this book of Asha Phillips “Saying No”

In ab-initio learning of any such attitude driven disciplines, like Martial Arts, Yoga, Sports or even Commando Training, the initial training is highly “command and control” oriented induction into the ideologies and values first. This phase is painful and normally not easily achievable in a democratic self-organizing environment. Once the team is focussed and driven on a value system by a hard-disciplined coach, then the teams get to know the entire system and the rationale of how and why it works.

Once the teams, scrum-master, product-owner and related management stakeholders go through these simulated, directed, most times painful, team work, they can then steer themselves on the self-organizing mode on their own.

Without this grinding, practical, hands on disciplined orientation and monitored induction of the teams, it is easier to wriggle out of the pain that is caused in learning the discipline and commitment that is called for in Agile to succeed.

Hence I am inclined completely to not just believe in what Scott says, but also whole heartedly subscribe to it. I do not feel it is contradicting the basic Agile Values in any way as this approach is used only for ab-initio training of new teams and stakeholders. This ends once the teams are trained.

This has also been my experience, in exactly similar lines, of all the teams I coached on such terms and they succeeded.