Your Invited a worldwide 20 Year Happening ! - Reflection, Discussion, Celebration and Improvement for our Agile Movement in Feb 2021
You are warmly invited to collaborate and share your wisdom, experience, and talents in creating a community lead event on the Agile story, what has happened in the last 20 years celebrating the rich diversity of thinking and amazing hard work that has been released by the community. All contributions will be logged and all stories will be told and the whole community can come together, Inspect, remember, inspire and create ideas for adaption for the next 20 years. Everyone in the Agile community is welcome! No matter where you are, which practices you use, or your level of experience come along and play!. We will all just find ways to collaborate, celebrate, and co-ordinate to run some truly unique events.
- Scott. @HeartofScott 26/07/2020 Scotland.
North Star for the Events
This can be a big idea that brings us together at this time of Covid-19 Separation and many of us are at home. An Idea that could be a huge opportunity for the whole Agile community to acknowledge the good and bad of the past, that we got some things wrong and that we commit to finding better ways to strengthen the community. Perhaps you may not even believe we have a community. This might challenge you to open doors you have shut, address hurt you have buried, or to put the record straight. It has the ability to be a learning and transformative experience. It has the potential to strengthen, renew, and grow our bond with our community.
So What's the Idea?
Our intent
Our Intent is simply to come together to make our community stronger.
Finding out who we are, where we have been and Where we are going:-
Inspect and Adapt;
Discover who is in the community;
Celebrate the Good things from the past;
Clear the air between people;
Set some new directions;
Have fun and refind what we love in the Agile Community;
Inspire a new generation and even breathe new life into the old ones;
Create an Agenda for things we want to change;
And, build a stronger community.
After 20 years and the creation of a vibrant and growing Agile Community we have a wonderful opportunity to carry out a retrospective to look back at what has happened, at the parts we all now play, and also to inspect and adapt our community for the future. And have some fun! And the fringe will be fun!
Retrospectives and regular reflection are some of the principles of the Agile manifesto and are really just a chance to look at the way the group is working, bring things out for discussion, highlight anything that might need changing, and collaborate on improvement. They are in essence learning from the past to improve how we can work in the future.
We aim to have an open, inclusive, respectful Retrospective including all and any Agilists across the world. Truly this will be a world congress held remotely and including many time zones, countries, languages and groups, using tools and technology aimed at maximizing participation.
We are all different
We acknowledge that the Agile community is not perfect. Many people have deep grievances, misgivings, and distrust. Many bad things have happened and many people have been hurt. It is also valuable to make it clear that there isn’t total agreement throughout the community. We are not a monolith. People come from a wide range of backgrounds and situations. Recognizing that context counts in important in how we establish this retrospective. And we seek ideas on how to acknowledge this, examine this and move beyond it.
Finally, this is a voluntary venture for the community, by the community about the community, and complying with the emerging standards of the community. We need to acknowledge that no matter what has happened before we need to acknowledge that although mistakes have been made, we can all support each other to learn and move forward. We don't deny the past, but neither do we volunteer to become prisoners of it.
Everyone steps into the circle of the heart of the event in good faith, with good intentions, abiding by the principles, code of conduct, and spirit of community. There might be frustration and anger, but we will put a stop to bullying, harassment, and trolling.
We suggest how we will get to the great “Happening Event” by crossing the river by feeling for the following rocks. (Thanks for these words Daniel Mezick)
A great co-created Happening event design
A real team that helps make (1) happen with you
On the event-days, a great / surprisingly useful experience for everyone. Fantastic use of time for each participant...
Real and actionable data, proceedings, and go-forward feedback, on a retrospective look at the Agile-space, coming out of the event.
Worldwide impact
We are still finalizing the idea (and seek your help) but we are anticipating that this will be an open, collaborative, interactive, learning online event where people can meet each other.
As a community we are not perfect, we don't hold all the answers to all the truths to the Universe. Working together however we have the ability to get better if we step into the circle and trust each other.
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