As to "stepping back": There is a very good alternative to (only) doing that: Go back into the trenches. Work with a team on the lowest level. Learn first how it feels before teaching others. If that does not inspire humbleness, what else will? :)
First of all, Gunnar is a great guy. I still remember meeting him at the Global Scrum Gathering in Amsterdam in 2023.
I also think that nobody really cares about a new manifesto and I don't think that we need any. All of us, practitioners, tinkerers, managers, leaders, and whatnot see each and every day what's going wrong and mostly it's about politics in organizations.
As being in the trenches, I see that a lot of people know very well what to do and how things could be improved. But usually the incentive structure and the emerging system doesn't let them to the things that need to be done. And so the things go their way.
I'm currently experimenting with a different way of working to keep my optimism or gain it back in parts: building things while leading and leading while building things.
Leaders became too theoretically and politically. They need to start building to get a feel for reality again. That might have an effect on them that no manifesto can ever have.
I think you nailed it, Bob. It is totally the same people having the same conversations and expecting a different outcome.
And yes, I'm part of this too. I am on the Agile Alliance board and I've been one of those established voices for a while now. And I do wonder when my experience stops being helpful and starts being in the way of fresh thinking and innovation.
In general, I don't think manifestos change how people work. The original did because ... well... it was the original. And also because it was the right thing at the right time in the right context.
What we need now, I agree with Gunnar here, is going back to doing actual, hands-on work so we candiscover better ways of working.
I hear your point about getting new voices and about making space. I promise that I will do my best to help this along.
Thank you for your candid observations (as always)!
Thanks for the mention! :)
The Einstein quote might not be from Einstein: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/ As many alleged quotes from famous people, it does not need the fame to bear some truth.
As to "stepping back": There is a very good alternative to (only) doing that: Go back into the trenches. Work with a team on the lowest level. Learn first how it feels before teaching others. If that does not inspire humbleness, what else will? :)
First of all, Gunnar is a great guy. I still remember meeting him at the Global Scrum Gathering in Amsterdam in 2023.
I also think that nobody really cares about a new manifesto and I don't think that we need any. All of us, practitioners, tinkerers, managers, leaders, and whatnot see each and every day what's going wrong and mostly it's about politics in organizations.
As being in the trenches, I see that a lot of people know very well what to do and how things could be improved. But usually the incentive structure and the emerging system doesn't let them to the things that need to be done. And so the things go their way.
I'm currently experimenting with a different way of working to keep my optimism or gain it back in parts: building things while leading and leading while building things.
Leaders became too theoretically and politically. They need to start building to get a feel for reality again. That might have an effect on them that no manifesto can ever have.
I think you nailed it, Bob. It is totally the same people having the same conversations and expecting a different outcome.
And yes, I'm part of this too. I am on the Agile Alliance board and I've been one of those established voices for a while now. And I do wonder when my experience stops being helpful and starts being in the way of fresh thinking and innovation.
In general, I don't think manifestos change how people work. The original did because ... well... it was the original. And also because it was the right thing at the right time in the right context.
What we need now, I agree with Gunnar here, is going back to doing actual, hands-on work so we candiscover better ways of working.
I hear your point about getting new voices and about making space. I promise that I will do my best to help this along.
Thank you for your candid observations (as always)!