Alright, good morning everyone. We had two agenda items. The first one was on Thursday which was we were going to work on you. We started that work.  We will do some practice on your presentation and some of the other things. Alright, so both agenda items require practice. So the possible outcomes from this session today, possible outcome from this session could be possible. You will have to play. You will have to play hard. So possible could be that you experience the size of your fears compared to you.   Fear runs the show. There is no you anymore. So maybe as we go along today, some of you probably already are.  Some of them are already in the experience of fear. That's okay. You just want to notice that there is fear. There's nothing to be done with it. The only time fear will probably go away is when we go away. Till then, as long as you and I human beings, fear is going to be there. I think it's a good idea to make friends with your fear. Till now, we almost don't want it. I don't want to be afraid. Fear has come again. It has only come again. It's always been there. It will always be there. And thank God for fear because it's actually designed to protect us. But then we'll talk a little bit about where is it that you really have to deal with the fear in a way in which it protects you and another way in which it's all in the head and there's no reality to it. So for example, if a bus is coming at 60 kilometers per hour and you're crossing the road and you look right and you see this bus coming and there's fear, yeah, you better run because your life then depends on it. But the moment I say, okay, please get ready for the PPT and everybody's heart which was normal heart rate of 72 beats per minute suddenly starts going like, you know, it's like a machine gun inside there. What happened? All I said is go on, be ready to present your PPT. So that's not real.  We've been conducting this course for the last 10 years and we've never had even the need to call an ambulance. So don't worry. But I can't say don't worry and then that will stop your worry. Human beings will always have fear. The heart will start beating at a certain rate, your hands will start sweating, your legs will start shaking and all those things will happen. That's part of being human. The only problem is when you and I say that shouldn't be, hey, we've had it for so many years and the promise is that it'll remain for the rest of our life. You might as well make friends with it, right? Okay, that's an invitation. So one of the things you probably get to see is the size of your fear compared to you. I'm not interested in your fear. The fear is okay. But I'm interested in you and as long as you are huge and the fear is along with you but not as big in size as you, then I have some say in the matter about how life is going to go. Otherwise, you know who's been running the show, what's been running the show, okay? All right, good. So that's one possible outcome.  So that's what, you know, possible outcome. If that happens, is that okay? I think it's going to be okay with us. Oh, after making all those mistakes, you laugh and then you laugh and I don't know what's going to happen after that. Oh, and then you'll be ready to communicate. After making all the mistakes, after laughing at yourself, after making all the mistakes and laughing and laughing, then maybe we're ready to communicate. Okay, we've somewhere lost our sense of laughter and gotten too serious in life. Okay, till such time as you can't laugh at yourself, you know what? You're of no service to anybody. You can laugh at yourself. Maybe it's the beginning of something. Oh, and after communicating you then laugh again, all right? Like you had something very significant to communicate anyway. All right, so maybe that will be a possible outcome. Okay, another outcome that I'm totally committed to, okay, is that there will be appreciation, there will be respect, there will be honor and acknowledgement for first yourself and the moment this begins to happen for yourself, it will be available for others, it will be available for life and the entire universe. Okay, so that's another possible outcome that you could commit yourself to. I am positively committed to this and all the other two. So, let's begin with finding a partner. Okay, so the center coordinators, would you please go ahead and set up partners, make sure two people sit together and if there is an odd number of participants, make sure that there are three in a group so that that person is not left alone and by now mostly post people would have come, but if somebody is coming later, just make sure that they have a partner. So, please set up a partner. So, this person here in the yellow saree in Amal Jyoti Kothayam. Okay, so shake hands with your partner so I know that you have a partner. Say hello partner. Okay, you're the coordinator, the person in the yellow saree is the coordinator. Are you the coordinator? All right, Amal Jyoti. All right, everybody got a partner? So, shake hands with your partner. Yes, say hello partner. Okay, very good. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, next. Nagpur, right? G. H. Rasoni. Good morning. All right, how many participants at your center? I have 52. Okay, how many are there? 52 participants from my college. I know, but how many are there today? Only four. Only four. Okay. So, are they going to the next airport to take a flight? No, actually in our college we have the parent mates. So, number of the faculty are busy. All right. Okay. So, for those of you who are here, please say hello to your partner. All right. And what about these two people? Are they partners or not? Sit together. Sit. Yeah, you need to sit next to you. So, my coordinator, you need to facilitate that. Make sure two people sit down together so that they can actually be working together. All right. Thank you very much. Now, say hello new partner. No, old partner. That's okay. All right. Yeah, I like that shake hand. Very good. All right. Good. Thank you. Amrita, how are you? All right. Amrita, good morning again. Yeah, hello, sir. Good morning. Do you have partners now? Everybody's got a partner? All right. Very good. How many people at your center? Total, we have 18, but right now we have only four. Okay. Very good. So, you know, thank you for the people who are here. Thank you for being here. And if you three of you, please make sure three of you work together. Okay. So, shake hands with each other. Three of you, the three partners. Okay. Excellent. All right. Very good. All right. And the coordinators, welcome to participate. Okay. Coordinator can also participate. So, please feel free to participate. Okay. Good. All right. So, we're gonna move on. So, I'm assuming now everybody's got a partner, and you've said hello to your partner. Let's move on.  And the question is, what does it take to create a mission? But let's just take a look at what mission is. Okay. What does it mean to be on a mission? John F. Kennedy in the early 60s, he declared that they would put man on the moon in 10 years. A lot of people said it cannot be done. So, you know, normally if somebody says, I want to do this, there'll be a lot of people around you who'll say this cannot be done. And then you get discouraged and that's it. That's the end of the mission. What Kennedy did was something remarkable. What he did is, he said all the people who say it cannot be done, if you're saying it cannot be done, that means you must have thought about it. And if you've thought about it, you must have come across some particular issue, which has not been dealt with technically or otherwise. And maybe if they can tell us what that issue is, then that issue, if he worked on that issue and resolved that issue, it'll actually make it possible for putting a man on the moon. So, what he did was he got a lot of, you know, everybody who said it cannot be done, he invited them. He said, come on. Come on over. Let's all sit under one roof. Let's start talking. So, he put everybody under the roof, under one roof and, you know, to deal with what needed to be dealt with. And interestingly, all the resistance to that idea, all the resistance to that idea got oriented to fulfill on the mission. And, you know, in less than 10 years after he said, man actually walked on the moon. Okay, so that's what a mission is. That's the kind of nature. That's the kind of fabric of what a mission is. You've got to say it into the future. You've got to be declaring it in a way in which it opens up a future, which was not going to happen before. And he just did something simple. Everybody who said it cannot be done, he just got them together and say, okay, let's see if you're committedly thinking about it. Let's see how, what we need to do so that we can resolve the issue that you may have thought of. Okay, so suddenly all the people who are supposed to be resisting you have become your partners. A lot of times when people don't like something or they say something about you that you don't like it, we usually say, not my friend. This is not person who's going to vote for me. We never listen to that person as, hey, this is a person who's pointing to something that if I got that resolved that actually it'll grow, that it'll go to the next level. We don't relate with it that way. Okay? If you look at anybody who's on a mission, if you just observe people around and people in history, people around you, people who are successful, people who are on a mission, they're always talking, they're always asking, they're always looking for criticism. Okay? Most of us human beings are only adept at and maybe we're always looking for appreciation and acknowledgement, but we don't see criticism as a form of appreciation of our own mission. Okay? So I'm inviting you to take a look, take a look to see if that's something that you may want to include. So the question is, are we on a mission? I am. Professor Fatak is. Everybody on the team here is. The question is, are you on a mission? And what the mission we are on may not be your mission. I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in you being on our mission. I invite you. I'd welcome you. It's just that this exercise is not going to depend on that. This exercise is really focusing on the distinction mission, creation of a future. So if you're not on a mission and this is not something that interests you, if not this, then what? You'll have to look at it. You'll have to answer that question. I cannot answer it for you. And sometimes it may be, okay, I'd like to do this, but not now. Okay, not now, then when? And then there's a third aspect, which is again very human. It's like, not me. It's a good idea. It should be done, but not me. Okay, in that case, you should probably answer the question, if not me, then who? So those are the three questions I'll leave you with as a starting point for a mission. I think we need to address that issue, each one for ourselves. So you should also take a look at, there are things that will be in the way of you creating a mission. When you were a child, when I was a child, there's so many things I wanted to do. The whole world was available. Today I'll be a pilot. Tomorrow I'll be a Pani Puriwala. Third day I'll be a driver. Fourth day I'll be a TV producer. When a fifth day I'll be Shahrukh Khan. It doesn't matter, on a daily basis I could keep creating missions. And of course, adults would say, yeah, little boy, little girl, okay, once they grow up, they'll find out.  Suddenly the whole freedom of creating a mission is become, that's not real. Don't be idealistic. What are you talking about? Look at politics. Look at the condition of the world. Look at the newspapers. You know newspapers? Somewhere in the middle on the editorial page, they have a small section which says good news. Otherwise what's the rest of the newspaper? Not good news. So you keep looking at the newspaper and you think missions are possible? No, not this lifetime anyway. Actually you know what? I was born in the wrong time of history. I should have been born, you know, 100 years from now. Then maybe I would have been able to. But right now the circumstances, mission?  You crazy? Nothing's possible. Too bad. This is it. This is our time. This is when we are on the planet. So let's take a look. Okay, let's take a look at what's in the way. What's in the way of us creating a mission? Three things, okay? Three things that are in the way of you and I creating our missions. Number one, fear. Number two, fear. Number three, fear. We never really looked at fear other than not wanting it, okay? There are many kinds of fears, but mainly two. As an animal, human beings are animals, okay? So animals do not think of preparing a PPT and presenting it. So they don't have to worry about something which is in our mind, okay? So human beings have an interesting phenomena called the mind and we make up fear in some ways. I'm not saying it's not real. Your experience is very real. Your mouth starts going dry. Your hands start sweating. Your heart starts beating, but it's all a result of the mind. Nothing actually happened to cause that fear. However, if you're in a forested area and you saw a tiger who's running after you, yeah, you better run because your life is under threat. So that is real. But most of the time, as human beings nowadays, I don't know. People in Chennai with the floods, that fear is real. It's actually happening. Life is getting threatened over there. But mostly, otherwise, by and large, most of the fear that we experience is pretty much a product of the mind. So you may want to just recognize that that's what's running the show. All right. Some of these are all illusions, okay? So fear may be a result of an illusion. Human beings are living in illusions. For example, you and I live in an illusion called tomorrow. Do you know that tomorrow is an illusion? How many of you know that you will wake up tomorrow morning? Center coordinators, if anybody is raising their hand, make sure they put their hands down. Because the fact of the matter is nobody knows if they're going to wake up tomorrow morning. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Where is tomorrow? There's no tomorrow. It's an illusion. So when I say if not now, then when, you'll say tomorrow, huh? There is no tomorrow. Sorry. Bad news. But there's good news you have today. So welcome to today. Let's live. There's another illusion. And I think you've seen the video on this one. Human beings are addicted to another illusion and it's called certainty. By the way, that there is tomorrow also lives inside of certainty. The illusion called certainty. We are certain that there is tomorrow. And we've never actually thought about it. We even think to even bring any level of inquiry into tomorrow, whether tomorrow is there or not, is completely out of the picture because you and I are given by immersed in, fully occupied with the illusion called certainty. And I think you've seen the video on this one. And there's a particular word in that quotation. So I just want to go with that word so that sometimes what happens is when you're reading something which is very powerful and suddenly a word comes in there which you don't understand, then you get caught up with not knowing the meaning of that word. Mind does tricks, okay? So you go into that reading, but then somewhere you will not fully allow yourself to be immersed in that thinking or in that thought process because there's a particular word and you don't know what that word is. So I'm upfront telling you what this means. This is a part of the video. I'm sure you've seen it. So certitude means certainty, confidence, freedom from doubt, synonyms are conviction, assurance, belief. Human beings are always trying to be free of doubt. We never bring doubt to anything. By the way, doubt is a healthy thing, especially in science and engineering. You actually bring doubt so that an inquiry can open up. I'm not saying when you're designing a bridge, do it doubtfully, but when you're doing research for sure, you want to bring doubt, you want to actually allow for certain ways of looking which may not have been possible before. My son was telling me last night, he said, you know, these, the games that you have and you hold that little console, I think the next generation is going to be about touch. So I said, isn't it already about touch? It vibrates.  So he just laughed out. He says, Papa, that's just dug, dug. So I said, what do you mean by touch?  That's the next level of virtual reality that, you know, he's thinking and he's not too happy about it because, you know, it'll actually hurt. So then we went on to a discussion about how possibly we could, we already seeing, we already hearing, vibration, the tactile's already there. Maybe we can begin to smell and taste also. So if you see raspberry or strawberry, pick up your favorite fruit. I hope everybody's had breakfast because otherwise if I mentioned food, you start feeling hungry.  That would be interesting as virtual reality. But that can only begin when you say, hey, is this, you know, is this something possible here? Some of you might, some of the most people will say, that's not possible. Yeah, but Man on Moon was not possible, right, till a few decades ago. Okay, so certainty is something which is good. But at the same time, you should know that it prevents from things which haven't happened from happening. Okay, so it actually is antithesis of creation. This one you know, the dilemma as human beings, we experience this dilemma day in and day out, day in and day out, day in and day out. All right, I'm just going to go over it line by line. As the lines come up, can you please read it aloud? So please read it aloud, everybody. Everybody read it aloud. All right, so coordinators, please help me with this. Just make sure that everybody is reading these lines aloud. I'll keep bringing two lines at a time. So you read the two lines and then the next two lines and the next two lines, okay? So would you please do this as we are doing this exercise? So everybody now, please be ready. I'll bring up the two lines and everybody read it aloud and then I'll stop and then your next two lines, you read it aloud, okay? Let's do that, all right? So please enjoy the process and let it touch you. Let this quotation touch you. Let it impact you.  I'd like for you, I'd like for this to disturb your life and I don't mean it in a bad way but I wanted to shake you up a little bit. There's too much certainty. We want something else to become possible, a new design of you, a new you to be possible. Something's got to get shaken up, all right? So be ready everybody, okay? Please allow yourself. Give yourself permission to be touched by this. Okay, so here are the first two lines. Everybody please read it loudly. Everybody here also, please read it loudly so I know it's happening. So you and I are chained by our certitude and therefore we are slaves to our certitude. Lovely, isn't it? I just love this quotation. Only a person who takes risks is free. So you really want to figure out how free you are. Somebody from yesterday had, a day before yesterday had given feedback when you had looked at that's how life is in a flat earth and you'd said something very beautiful. Yeah, you know, is freedom available to us? It is. Are you willing to risk it? It goes hand in hand. There's two sides of our hand.  It goes with the risk. Two sides of the same coin maybe. Okay, so I invite you to that. Okay, I think it got a little eaten up on the side but here's another quotation. Okay, courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. What I like about it is the, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. Okay, so the you, the mission called you and fear, the moment the judgment comes in that that mission is more important than fear I think things will begin to happen. Okay, that's my promise to you. Okay, so probably a good time to do some notebook work. Okay, please take out your notebooks and I'll give you five minutes to begin to articulate a future. Okay. And it will start with my mission is this is in your notebook. It is exclusively for you. You don't have to share it with anybody. This is personal. This is private. At the most I will request you to share it with your partner. Please be generous and share it with your partner. Open your hearts and begin to write. I'll give you five minutes. It can be three, four bullet points. It can be some ideas. It is something that you've always been inspired by. It could be something which you've dreamt of. Okay. So please take five minutes and start the work. I'll wait for five minutes. I'll come back to you after four minutes to tell you one more minute is left. And then we'll complete the exercise and I'll get a chance to hear from you as to what you're creating. Okay. And I'm just, I just want you to know that this is a sacred process. It is a very sacred process and I welcome you to it and invite you to it and I'm honored that I get to actually share the sacred space with you. Okay. So please start the work. I'll come back to you in four minutes. Thank you. All right. So what I'd like for you to do now is please turn to your partner and say hello partner. You want to share what is it, what are your thoughts on a mission that you would like to lead, a mission that you would like to be a part of. Okay. And just some thoughts.  Okay. That's the opportunity. And so I hope everybody's ready to go. So person with shorter hair today. Okay. So person with shorter hair goes first. So I'll give you two minutes each. After two minutes, I will tell you to switch so that both, both the partners get a chance to speak. Okay. So please start now. Two minutes each. Okay. Very good. So I'm going to open it up with some interactions now. Okay. So this is Surat, Sarvjanic College of Engineering. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Very good.  Thank you. So please, I'd like for, you know, so what happened? I'd like for you to share what's happening from your group as to what's happening when you are beginning to look at this whole idea of creating a mission for yourself. A lot has been happening. In fact, everybody is rediscovering a new you. I'll hand over the mic to one of my colleagues. And it would be, I'm the coordinator here, sir. Yeah. So, so this is, you know, it's sometimes you ask for volunteers and sometimes you give the microphone to somebody and say, hey, you are the volunteer. Okay. So this is one of those situations. Please go ahead. Good morning, sir. Good morning. My mission is to lead my nation where the mind is without fear and would like to live in a developed nation. Excellent. Beautiful. Beautifully said. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Well done. Well done. All right. So my mission is to make all childhood study stress free and all child should love the studies. Excellent. Excellent. Well done. Well done. Okay. Very well done. All right. One more person. Hello. Yeah, sir. My mission is that I want to groom my kids as responsible citizen. Okay. One more time. Say it one more time. I feel that as mothers, we take the responsibilities of our kids. But if we make them responsible, then obviously they can take further their aims, their objectives and the country to the heights. Excellent.  Yeah. Sure. For sure, sir. All right. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Next center. CU Shah College of Engineering. Surendranagar. Hi. Good morning. All right. I'd like two of you to share what's opening up. What's happening? Sir, I'm Vida Darjeet from CU Shah. And my mission is to be a successful woman as a professional, as a daughter, as a wife, and most likely to be a mother of having a great quality. I wish to contribute to the society surrounding me. Fabulous. Thank you. Thank you very much for creating that. Thank you. Okay. One more person. Sir, my mission is make India strong in agriculture field. I didn't hear it said three more times. My mission is make India strong in agricultural field. Okay. Now, can you please put the paper down? My mission is make India strong in agriculture field. Excellent. So now, one last time. One more time. But you want to say it, knowing that 3 million people are hearing you. Make India strong in agricultural field. Beautiful. Thank you for doing that. Absolutely beautiful. Okay. Thank you. One more person, please. Morning, girl. Good morning. Sir, my mission is I'll put it like this way. It is like I want to spread my celebrate life. That's it. No flowery words. Okay. So, say it slowly. Say it again. 3,500 people are listening. My mission is to spread my celebrate life. All right. And when will that mission begin? This moment. Okay. And does it start with you? Absolutely, sir. Fabulous. So, say it one more time so I can actually get that around you there's nothing but celebration happening. To spread my celebrate life. Excellent.  Okay. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you. There was one person in front who I missed, who had stood up. Yes. My mission is to bring transformation in society to bring awareness and be confident in people for what they have and have. Excellent. I can hear you but can you hear yourself? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I repeat. My mission is to bring transformation in society to bring awareness in society and to make people confident about what they have and what they have. All right. And the mission is going to begin when? Already started. Excellent. So, around you, people will experience transformation. Yes? Yes. Fabulous. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. This is Hawaii Engineering College. All right. Hello, good morning. My mission is to contribute something very useful to the society with my knowledge. Excellent. So, I think first thing you have to do is stand up. Excellent. All right. Excellent. Now, tell me what you have to say. My mission is to contribute something very useful to the society with my knowledge. Excellent. I have gained a lot from this workshop to achieve my mission. Okay. All right. Good. So, look around you. Look at the people around you. The other half of population also Okay. Good. Very good. All right. So, say it in a way in which you can hear it yourself. This is for you now. We heard it. I'd like for you to hear what you're saying. I want to contribute something very useful to the society. Excellent. That is, I am very interested in the field of solar power plants. So, in this I want to install a power plant. It is a solar power plant for our society, especially for my institution. Put the microphone next to your mouth. Closer. Okay. You said something about solar. Say it again. Yes, sir. Solar plant. That is a solar power plant. Okay. Can I be a part of your mission? It is a small somehow the power plants that exist in the present situation. Okay. I have a question. Can I ask a question? Yes, sir. Okay. Can I be on your mission? Yes or no? Sir, you're welcome, sir. Send me an email to invite me. Yes, sir. Good. Immediately today, afternoon, I'll send a mail to you. Right. Thanks a lot. Very good. And then you should take that same email and send it to you. Good morning, sir. Hi. Good morning. My mission is this. I want to motivate the depressed people to face their challenges. I'm a trainer already. So I want to do a lot of things to the people. That means especially depressed people. Students and those who are working. I just make them to how to use their time effectively to invent their inherent talents and how can we use it? We should not say that I cannot come up in my life. It's possible if you try. We don't use it properly. So you want to make it very strong that all the human beings got our own responsibility in this earth and God has given a lot of things. Just find it, discover it and execute that's what we have to do. That's my mission, sir. Excellent. Excellent. So can I be on your mission? Yes, sir. You're welcome, please. Send me an email. Yes, definitely, sir. I'm very happy. Excellent. All right. Very good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. All right. So thank you for declaring yourself. Thank you for opening up that world. I'm sure there are questions as to how to do it. But I don't have to be worried about it because if that is your baby, then you will take care of your baby. I don't have a concern about it. The question is are you giving birth to a baby or not? So as long as you have a baby and you are the parent of that baby, I don't have an issue. Okay. I don't have to do whatever is required to make sure that you nurture the baby. Now sometimes you might forget that that's your baby. But don't worry. We'll do things to make you make sure that, you know, you remember that. All right. All right. So now some of you who shared have been able to articulate it in a way in which there's clarity. Okay. Some of you might still be struggling with it. Some of you might even think mission and all is okay. I mean, we really need to live our lives right now. As long as I can live my life, forget about mission. My mission in life right now. By the way, human beings have one mission by default, like all animals. One mission by default, which is survival. Most human beings are unknowingly totally committed to survival. Now that you have to do anyway. Okay. There's no doubt about that. You know, you cannot not do that. But at the same time, is there something else that's available? Is there a game to play? So you, of course, you got to take care of a survivor. And then the next step is to house it that I can contribute. How is it that I can participate? How is it that I can create? Which is a faculty which is available to human beings? That's our gift. So some of you are still in the process of articulating. I invite you to keep doing that. I put a caution sign over here to make sure that you don't have to worry. It may take a week. It may take two weeks. But keep working on it. Okay. This is not something which will happen overnight or it can happen in an instant. Some of you have written up or articulated something which is your mission. By the time you have dinner tonight, you might think, that's not what, I don't want to do that. I want to do something else. You want to grow to the next level. And so you take that up. But at some point in time, when you're inspired by who you are, when you're inspired by what you're up to, you will know that the articulation is complete. Okay? All right. Just a few hints about how to stay on the mission. So first thing is that you have to be willing to create a mission and be on a mission. Nobody can force you to do that. Somebody has to get on to the bicycle to ride the bicycle. You cannot push somebody on a bicycle and say, now ride the bicycle. Okay? You have to get on to the bicycle yourself. If you're a human being, and I think I checked with the registration team, they said everybody was human. 3,400 plus people, all human.  We want to get off the mission. It seems like a bad idea. Right now you may be very inspired by it. But you know, when the going gets tough, you'll say, forget the mission. I got other things to do. This is too painful. And this is not what I settled for. This is not what I committed to. It was supposed to be inspiring all the time. This is not inspiring anymore to, you know, so forget it. In that situation, the willingness would come in another form. It'll come in the form of you choosing it again. Never mind that it may not be inspiring at that time.  Only thing. The only, only, only thing that is guaranteed on a mission is hard work. And I say to my students quite often that while hard work is guaranteed, suffering is optional. You don't have to suffer. You can keep working hard and stay inspired. All right. So the desire to get off the mission will come. And you've got to recognize it and recognize it as what? Hey, this is familiar. I have this desire right now to get off the mission. And you can laugh about it. It's come. I'm a human being. It has come. It's come again. And every time you have a choice to say, okay, I got the desire. Thank you very much. Back on the mission. So your willingness is going to be in place. And then what's next, which requires for you to stay on the mission is articulation and sharing and being in action. Okay. Articulation and sharing and being in action. So you know, I asked one person to say it in a way that they can hear it. Then I asked another person to leave the paper now. You don't need the paper. You created it. You make a few mistakes in saying it, but it requires practice. I don't think anybody has learned how to write a bicycle by holding a paper in hand. Okay. You got onto the bicycle. You fell down. You get onto the bicycle. You fell down. Get on the bicycle. You fell down. Fall 30,000 times. I don't care. But the only access for your mission is getting onto the bicycle. So you have to articulate it. You have to share it. And you have to be in action. You have to share this one slide. What is your access to power? Okay. And when I say power, it means what is power? Interesting. We'll talk about it after the tea break. Okay. But right now let's just take it.  A lot of times people associate politicians as powerful people. Okay. No, no, no. My son is very powerful. He's not a politician. He's very powerful because he has access to something which makes him powerful. You and I have access to power. And we just need to be able to get that. Okay. So what is your access to power? I'll just hint at it and then we can talk about it a little more. Three things. You remember previously what was in the way were three things. Fear, fear and fear. Okay. So your access to power is three things. Sharing, sharing and sharing.  Keep sharing. Keep sharing. Keep sharing. Right now when you go on a tea break, what are you going to do? Share. You look at a person and say, I don't want to share with this person. I got it. I got it. And then share. Never mind what their thought is. I don't like this person. I don't care. Share. Because desire to get on the mission comes in many forms. I like it. I don't like it. This is comfortable. This is not comfortable. I don't care. If you want power in your mission, you have to share. So what are you going to do with the tea break? Share. See what happens. By the way, this is for anything. Okay. Sharing, sharing, sharing. You share all of your humanities available. All the power is available. Some of us become very private people. Some of us become only loving only our family members only. Love is only available for others. I can like loving. It's very risky business. You cannot risk loving everybody. Are you on a mission to love? Okay. Take it on. Go love everybody. Some of you like the idea. Yeah. It's a beautiful idea. It's an idea whose time has come. So I just want to give you another hint. You know, presence of fear could actually be an indicator for an opportunity to share. So every time you feel there's fear, you experience fear. Ah! It means I have to share now. What a lovely idea. Sarji. I'm not advertising. Okay. All right. And the last slide before we take a break. So more the fear, more you share. Okay. So please go ahead. Have a lovely cup of tea or coffee, whatever you're going to have. And come back in about five minutes so we can start again. There's a lot of work to be done. And so please go ahead and share your mission. So your work during the break is to share, share, share your mission. Share. Get inspired. Be inspiring. Go. Fall a few times. That's okay. But go share. Okay. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


Hey and welcome everybody to an agile manifesto future spective I'm gonna just literally give you a 30 second quick intro and then I'm gonna pass you into our first session of the day Which is going to be the future spective expert panel discussion with Brian Ray Jurgen Jeff and Giles These slides that are moving forward, but big happy birthday from from everybody just for the audience We've got some amazing audience out there We've got events running all of February So this just shows you per region where those events are a huge global Interest in in the agile 20 reflect festival and everybody who's here today That's you guys on the map So literally this afternoon I've taken what it was on LinkedIn and I push that out Into a whole stack of different countries and a different person So if you see yourself on this list, you know, feel free to add on the chat and say hi I'm on or I'm listening We've got a whole stack. We've got four pages of attendees here and obviously some of those names You're probably quite familiar with and of course you can see the panel who have all got their webcams on at the moment so After the next slide, we're gonna see some demographics to give you an idea of the type of people who are attending this event today So this in number one position is the scrum masters So hopefully we're pitching to the right type of people. Like I said, this is a snapshot of 120 countries which are attending this session today So some interesting companies that are doing some great manager level and director and staff level So with that, I'm gonna hand over to the first session of the day Hosted by gels Lindsay who's got an amazing expert panel to actually go off and start this festival off with a bang So if you want to connect any to any of them, there's gonna be QR scouts codes on each each one of the pages and With that, I'm going to actually now pass on to On to Giles to to intro for the the panel discussion Fantastic look Jonathan great intro and thanks very much everybody For obviously coming along to this anniversary event. I mean, we've got to be saying right now firstly Happy birthday to agile and we know it happened obviously this weekend 20 years ago. So this is a fantastic event for everybody to be here enjoying And it is with great pleasure that we have got a an awesome audience Here joining us and we've got a great panel. I think Jonathan if you can let Jeff back in I think he is still Just trying has some access problems to join us and get in with so if you don't mind just trying to see if you can get him to Become a panelist. I will wait a couple of seconds And see whether he can join in but otherwise, you know, I want to really say thank you very much firstly to obviously Jurgen Ray and Brian for coming along joining us today and being part of what's essentially event part one The past and future 20 years reflection Jeff good to have you back sir Great or awesome. Well, look, thank you very much. I'm gonna kick start with Some initial questions to get the sort of the the minds and juices going this afternoon this evening this morning wherever our GPS is in the world right now and As we do can each of you please just give a very quick sort of 30 seconds info about who you are Why you're here representing and obviously share that with the audience Especially as it's still growing and getting larger and larger every second So my first intro question for our past and future 20 years reflection is How has agile evolved in the last 20 years? Since the signing of that original manifesto and I don't know Brian if you want to kick us off because you were there And sort of helped launch that conversation, but I think I'm gonna start with you if that's okay and tell the world who you are Okay, I'm Brian Merrick. I was Sort of accidentally invited to the agile manifesto meeting So I can't claim a huge amount of authority. I was invited to be the token tester. I was a Person who is known for a style of testing that was very similar to agile called context driven testing and So Martin Fowler Twisted somebody's arm and got me invited. I no longer really do testing But I noticed that Lisa Crispin is on the call She's the woman whose picture was with a donkey She and Janet Gregory are now the people that I consider the the go-to people for agile testing So the question was what what has changed in the last 20 years? well an interesting thing about the attendees at the first agile conference was that they were Overwhelmingly programmers they were a Surprising number of them including me had experience with the small talk language Small talk is a particular very flexible language and Out of small talk there arose the software patterns movement and Agile arose out of software patterns Patterns have sort of died in a useful way though the idea is still good, but That's how we got to agile and I think that the big difference that's happened in the last 20 years is That the programmers Have kind of been shuffled out of the picture Agile has become a management style Rather than a sort of grassroots bubble-up programming style of Development so what's been lost is the actual fingers-on keyboards producing code Fantastic Brian, thanks very much for that. I'm gonna hand over next in sequence ray. Hi ray. Hi Well, I'm ray arrell. I've been in the industry. I think far too long. I'm a hardware person I'm a systems engineer grew up in semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing has been my start of all of all of this and Getting involved with agile at least in the early days after this, you know the software people came in and and I think did a really good job of kind of Taking some of the goodness of what we do as engineers and kind of culminated it together into the manifesto and Thinking about it in the way of how can we reconnect with management and how can we reconnect with our customers and do value? When I fell into it, I was doing RTL code for state machine design and other things and so Hardware which is really funny if you talk to hardware of people they typically will say well those are the software people over here and these are the hardware people over here but reality is we're all writing software and so Taking those design patterns that Brian was talking about and starting to apply those to a hardware equation actually started to work really Well, we started to see quality go up. We started to see Productivity go up for usability go up all of those things and so I think in the early days Yeah, that technical revolution that he was talking about was was very much there We could do our work more effectively. I wouldn't say that the programmers got pushed out as much as the tent got bigger and Unfortunately when the tent got bigger, I think that at especially at the conferences and events The new shiny penny suddenly took center stage and some of it would be more of the soft-scale portions of it and all the rest And I think that in that first 20 years as we've we've went through We've seen now going from like I'm saying from the hardware side over to finance over to defense over to government There's just a whole bunch of people trying to adopt the mindset and coming up with new methods and I think that that's that's been really a big plus and I would like the programmers by the way to rehab the voice, you know to Kind of bring them back into the fold and not be the step-chart children in the sides over there anymore And that would be great Right fantastic fantastic intro. Thank you very much Obviously being here as we get into some further conversations. I'm gonna hand over to Jurgen next Jurgen great to have you here with us as well Thanks very much Over to you intro and sort of give us an understanding Alright, sure. Well, my name is Jurgen Apollo. I'm calling in from Rotterdam in the Netherlands And my role has been to focus on the non-programming aspects of agile So yes, I have seen that it emerged as something specifically Applicable to to programming actually I am a software engineer by heart So I did extreme programming and that stuff in in 2000 plus But I ended up in management positions because my team basically Begged our managers to promote me away because I was I sucked so badly at the programming And I did a better job as a team leader apparently but at the principles remain the same And I think we can compliment the the people who were there at snowbird For for coming up with the values and the principles that turned out to be pretty universal Across disciplines and and and professions and they focused of course given their backgrounds on the programming part And they came up with practices that applies to programming But hey feedback cycles is not something that only applies to programming it applies to design it applies to management It applies to Marketing whatsoever. So yes, as Ray said the tent got bigger other people said hey that also applies to my job I don't happen to be a programmer, but I would love to to Help and now not block things because that's another thing the programmers notes that they couldn't do Everything they wanted because they needed other parts of the company to change as well They could they they they want to do things differently But they were confronted with with annual performance appraisals and traditional marketing pipelines, etc So they were like hey you guys should also do something different so that we can do the way Program the way we want They basically invited the others into the tent as far as I concerned And I think that's a good thing. So now we end up with business agility as sort of an umbrella term I suppose to to encapsulate everything and I would be sad if the programmer said well, it's not our tent anymore I Don't want to see them leave for sure. They should have an important room in an important stage in the tent but Let's cherish that other people wanted to be in as well because To be honest when you offer a product or a service to a customer the programming part is a is a part of it But it's not everything there is a lot before and after and around in the programming That is quite crucial in order to offer that great experience to a customer so let's be a bit holistic about it and Yeah, I think that's it's good that we that we are where we are now Awesome Jürgen, thank you very much and lots of points. I agree coming from a software engineering background myself as well So awesome. Thanks Jeff over to you. Please give us a little intro and Give us your thoughts on the question Thank you. Yeah, I have no idea why I'm here And I'm the old one out in a way because I never have been and almost certainly never will be a programmer And I do have a certificate somewhere that says I can program in visual basic, but you don't want me on your team trust me So I have no background there and what's been interesting for me So 2001 I was a project manager, but of a software team But had no idea what they were doing and so just kind of have to trust their expertise really I couldn't tell them what to do and had no desire to tell them what to do So it sort of fit quite nicely to my my lack of knowledge and expertise And so I think that's why I grasped onto it and in a way So I think the original question was around, you know, how's it changed over 20 years? And so I probably don't have as much attachment to the original manifesto in a way because none I didn't create it so In a way, it hasn't changed at all because the manifesto hasn't changed at all And that is still to this day, the closest you can get to a definition of what agile is in many ways So it kind of hasn't changed, but people talking about the tent expanding and being much more relevant to lots more Industries, domains, roles, subjects, I just think is fantastic. I've still seen people Using the principles and the values in all sorts of different circumstances So the diversity has just increased tremendously, I would say over the last 20 years And I think what's been interesting when you look back, but perhaps interesting wouldn't be the word I'd use at the moment When you were there is just the number of sort of I'll say healthy conflicts along the way and we sort of hinted at that already and you know software developers feel like they've been pushed out And that's that's a perspective and that that that sense of baffled whether it's Scrum and Kanban or whether it's business agile and software These these tensions have been necessary and they've shown a great deal of passion and they've been necessary to see it expand There's Jurgen saying that to encompass the whole when we're talking about product development customer customer value At the time it feels quite painful Whatever tension it is, but at the end of it you think oh, yeah, we needed that tension to grow Fantastic look this these are all great points and hopefully this will help lead into the the next part of the conversation And I'm gonna leave it open for whoever then wants to come in and organically pass it on To the next member of our expert panel So one of the questions that have been banded around a lot recently in Unlinked in on social media Twitter other things Which myself and the organizing committee have you know been wrestling with and hearing and seeing what people wanted to Answer and how they wanted to answer this particular question But it has sort of agile whether we want to capital layer small layer agility, whatever we want to do That's it had its moment in terms of improving organizations And uh, if not, um, you know what other areas for improvement are there I can do it first. I'll I'll dive in The features here, but it's you know in it's not distributed equally If you look at a lot of what's going on in agile development today I see you know teams in india getting empowered now Very similar to where a decade ago, you know somewhere in the u.s Somebody was getting empowered by using agile same same with south africa or other other countries It's not all equal. So when we think about agile and agile development or agile management or all of the new things that we've got For some people it's new For them still and it's interesting because i've been working with the agile alliance The last couple of years and watching the conference and seeing who the attendees are and those things and 60% new first exposure to agile and you know, it's like We're 20 years in and yet we're still getting this group of people who've never Known what this what this is or how to work in this way. So I think that there's still growth that's going on um, as far as the last part about shifting And I I've seen so much writing about every year. It's the first of the year and agile's jump the shark agile is You know next you know, this is going to be something beyond agile or we try to go rename it by Calling it business agility or something else But it still comes down to that we've been struggling for 20 years To live up to the principles that are in the agile manifesto Every team that I come and have exposure to I asked them Are those principles read them and ask the question? Are they easy or hard to do in your company context and notoriously? More than half of the 12 or or maybe three of them are easy for them to do and the rest are still hard So I still think we have lots of work that needs to be done as well And I know you're getting what you know, I'll point to you because you've been doing a lot in the management space Um And I think that's been helping but I'm gonna I'm gonna turn it over to you and get your impression on it Yeah, I I I recently reflected on that on on the socials or I do quite a bit of communication Um, I compared it with the word cyber We have to distinguish the word from from the meaning and I am Of an age that I remember that we talked about cyber stuff like cyberspace and cyber things and that was oh that was pretty cool Nobody uses the word cyber anymore only old people use the word cyber But it is everywhere. We are in cyber space right now basically and we and we don't have the word for it anymore Um, and the young ones have no idea what you're talking about When you use the word cyber, so I think it's the same with agile This this has the word agile had his day. Well as a word, maybe At some point we're not going to use it anymore, but I don't think we're going to see feedback cycles lengthening again For anytime soon In fact, they will keep shortening for a while. I'm I'm I'm pretty sure But maybe we will stop calling it agile and who cares? I don't care personally If we come up with other terms and and and I'm also been quite fascinated by other movements such as design thinking and lean startup and and what not That had very very similar insights from From very different angles very different perspectives Feedback cycles have been around since Since the time immemorial We should not pretend that we were the ones in the agile community coming up with the idea that we should deliver things faster It made total sense to have that insight in the software world and yes, we pulled other people in But I'm okay with letting go of the term And just seeing this as it's a cliche, but the new normal that we live in Nowadays so the values and principles remain very much the same The practices change over time because the way we do agile now. It's Very different from how we did that 20 20 years ago. So, um, yeah, goodbye agile welcome New world Basically that agile has helped to introduce Who else I I guess having slotted myself in as as something of the the programmer advocate and Troublemaker, I guess I might as well lean into that and embrace it Uh around 2002 I Joined or I just went for a few days to visit a a well functioning early scrum team and talked to the various people there and They were loving it and particularly I remember the product donor Said to me that you know being a product donor Is way way harder than the way I used to do this stuff But it's so great and I can't see why anyone else Well, I I can't see why anyone would want to develop software any other way So that was 2002 Uh, I don't remember the year Exactly, but maybe around 2009 10 I was one of uh a vast flood of rent a consultants who were brought in to spread scrum throughout the enterprise and I was talking To one of the people there And he said and this is burned in my brain At least my job doesn't suck as much as it used to So you have in the period of eight or so short years Going from something that was quite frankly Liberatory to something that is oh, well, I guess it's better Uh, and that was actually the time when I decided I need to switch out of agile consulting but I think we want to I think it's important to Maybe it's important. Maybe it's important to understand that The original agile Caught on because there were a bunch of people who were Suffering to the extent that you know well paid people who sit in an office all day can suffer But they were working in a situation that they knew was wrong and painful and they had An idea based on actual experiences of something that would work better And That's been lost the sense that this is about I think that's been lost the sense that this is about making people happier Um agile caught on Because ward cunningham had the great idea to put up agile manifesto.org with Principles and and values and the really clever idea was that he He had the idea to let people Sign the manifesto and there was a Absolute flood of people say yes. Yes. I want this. I want this. I want this And I guess to some extent I think that has gone away and I think that's too bad I would disagree with that it's gone away I think other people have the right to be happier as well Not only the programmers but also the project managers and the line managers and the hr people and the marketers etc Because why would they not have suffered to a similar extent as the as the programmers? So let's let's praise them for being among the first to realize that things can be done differently But i'm not trying to plug my book here, but I wrote the book managing for happiness That seems to be doing quite well. So other people Try to be happier in their jobs as as well. So I don't see it as having gone away I just see it as the need has been realized Or we have realized the need in other areas as well. So it's okay that managers are happy I don't mind that I think it is notable that agile has become To a much greater extent than it used to a dirty word Among soft in software development teams. That's sad Well, I was I was gonna not to step over on this but I've had people tell me that they've been scrummed Using it as a verb that they've been it's been inflicted upon them and I and every time I've dug into those situations I discovered that they weren't practicing the mindset. They weren't practicing agile They were actually just using a waterfall mindset or a fixed mindset and not You know, they're just not doing it right and if it hurts as they say if it if it hurts you're doing it wrong And that's been a case for certain things and I did mean to step over you Jeff I'm sure Jeff has an opinion on that Come on Jeff Well, I think the one the one group that hasn't really been mentioned say thyrus customers have have a right to be happy as well And I was chatting to mike cone last week and he said if he'd have been in the agile Manifesto creation room, it would have been worse the manifesto would have been worse for his involvement because he would have lobbied against the duplication of the word customer But actually he's glad that it was duplicated because customers are really important in this and that's our primary motivation and the idea of If it hurts, you're doing it wrong. I do disagree with that one because actually Change does hurt doing something differently does hurt Changing your habits is really uncomfortable for people and actually we need to get past that discomfort So yeah, I get there's a difference between discomfort and hurt But equally I think for for a lot of the people that I'm working with Developers customers everyone has to sort of put themselves out there and risk feeling uncomfortable While they get used to a different way of working and it's really scary and Yeah, I think from trying to come back to to the idea that software developers Kind of feel that agile is a dirty word. I can get that. I absolutely can And it is a shame like like Juergen says And anyone that's had agile done to them Is it hasn't experienced agile? I think that that's something we could probably all agree on right? Um, and is that does that make agile a dirty thing? I don't I don't think so So is agile going away in a way? I hope it does so the the kind of things that we talked about it should just not be a Thing anymore. It's just kind of the way that we do things in certain circumstances. That's normal and I think And I think we're finding that you know Juergen saying we're perhaps we're feeling old now and I am starting to feel old People starts. Well, why why would what where did this come from? Why would you not have done this? You know But they haven't experienced the situation that that we were in 20 years ago when it was very difficult to have Cycle times like that and feedback loops like that So I'll stop waffling there and let somebody else come in But but I wanted to just say on that one Jeff when you say about the customer and the customer focus And and I see that what with the intent was we were going to originally connect Engineers closer to the customer And what I found was it you know because I used to work for a very big, you know fortune 100 company And the hardest thing that we ever had was is don't let the engineers in the room with the customer Because they're going to make and this literally I heard this from the marketing people and the sales people is They're going to go promise something and they're not going to deliver it and this lack of trust that kept those pools away in the bigger companies and I don't think we we got there yet with agile to be able to to have a real legitimate conversation between the customer and The developers and connecting those two some companies have done really good jobs I'm really impressed with like microsoft where if you go post a question about a microsoft thing that it's a developer who's answering you you know and that that to me is like To the metal to where you need to do and what we've seen is is with companies when they do that They're actually more successful You know, they suddenly Take And I think market forces they take time right but the companies that are successful by employing those tactics will eventually win out I think I think one of the things that I've suffered with over my 20 years is over empathy in a way and so when you when you paint that picture of not Being able to trust developers to be in the same room with the customer I can I can picture a scenario where I can empathize with the person saying that because the developers haven't got the tools the experience the confidence to actually have those conversations Safely and not feel that they're going to be over ruled or what have you and it takes time to get us all to that point And we've we've made such progress in that not everywhere admittedly, but we've made such progress In that and I think that should be applauded by everyone who's taken that that step forward Yeah, glass is half full not half empty as far as I'm concerned and two things came to mind you said that that People have been scrummed and agile has been done to them well for me That's just proof that the non programmers need to learn what is expected from them as well In order to have the organization be successful. So it cannot be a programmer only thing Because then the rest of the organization is going to keep behaving badly In an unagile way And second I like the idea of Well, sometimes changes got got to start with hurting I often share the story of me A few years ago when I started running. I did it really really badly and everything hurt I I discovered muscles. I didn't even know existed in my body, but it was motivation for me to learn Okay, how do I do this thing better because this is not working for me But I had to go through that pain in order to be motivated to learn how to Do do this better breathing techniques and posture and all that stuff So, you're sure but some people just run in and and they're oh, we're we're we're we're doing stand-up meetings We're scrumming. Yay, and then nothing works Um, and then they figure out. Okay. This is this is painful. Maybe we should go to a conference or get a decent coach Or something that's good. You you made the first couple of steps. You're on the rail. Let's Let's praise them Well, I'm gonna step in because there's been some fantastic points raised by everybody and I I do think for those of us all of us here Have certainly been on that journey for for the the 20 years that we are celebrating here tonight Then one of the things we've got to be mindful of as it says happy birthday up here on screen right now We've got to be mindful of we we ran an event last night a small event last night And we actually discovered that a lot of the community the cohort that came along to actually listen Had we're discovering agile that day, you know, this was something that they they wanted to find out about, you know We can't presume that necessarily absolutely everybody here has been on a 20-year journey or a 15-year journey or 10-year journey with this And somehow they've been through the the peaks and the troughs as well and discovered successes in organizations and failures resistance from the the leadership or the middle management or even from the the teams themselves So, you know in trying to you know Inspire those people that are coming on to that journey now themselves possibly the growth mindset Which is actually underpinning what we want to do with success in our organizations You know, what does the future hold for this word agile this way of working this mindset this set of philosophy and values What does this hold and possibly even you know for the next 20 years? Where do you think we would likely be in the next 20 years? Do you think it's evolved simply beyond the conversation? We are having now that it just becomes a de facto part of the way of working the norm We've removed bureaucracy commander control micro management in time in terms of that sort of organizational structure Or do you think it's actually going to commercialize even further? You know, I recently had the chance of chatting with Dave Snowden at a previous conference Who said that's it. No, it's dead, you know Move on, you know, and we all love Dave for the the the great points he raises But I just wonder how do we inspire that also that next generation? What do we think possibly the the next period 5 10 even 20 years is going to look like and I'm going to pass that back to the panel Job go ahead I'd say Maybe We're looking at it slightly wrong there and just take the chance to say well How can the next generation inspire us? Because we're kind of assuming that that just because we've gone through that journey so far. We know what the next step is Um, but actually we've got our own biases and we're probably still blinkered by them But people coming in with a fresh mindset. Okay, they might be tempted to make the same mistakes and we can we can Warm them of of history But equally I'd be encouraged to say look look at this blank slate Where would you go next? Thanks for that I think the um I like that happiness of customers was mentioned because I think we can Use that as our north star to see where we're going if we keep that in mind We made one step by replacing project with products. That was good But it's a first we need to replace product with experience Jugi of your examples I have been Lived with some companies that offered me great products, but it was sheer impossible just to get the invoice For the thing that I paid for Or I was quite satisfied with the product, but customer servers sucked bottomless pit of of disaster basically The other way Around can also be the case. There are some products that are so-so But I stick to them because I love the company I love the service I love everything about it and I will forgive them for not having the best programmers in the world because The holistic experience for me is still really Really good one So I think we need to be responsible for the entire experience that customers have we we do not offer Just bits and and and atoms we create happiness molecules in their brains That's what we're responsible for and that includes the entire organization So I think we have quite a way to go and that's as I said, I I love design thinking and other methods and frameworks and movements that have something to say in that in that area Yeah To add to that the one thing is someone new again and being involved You know the freshness of some novelty that One of you when you go, oh, that's exactly the way that we should be approaching this Those failings you're right for most of us who've been in agile for about 20 years We don't we don't have that, you know, let's go look through the eyes of Of a newbie in that particular perspective But but what I think is is that there there's new stuff that's coming out all the time And we're too focused on the recipes rather than the craft And specifically What I want to see happen at least for the the new people getting involved that yes There are those frameworks and there's those pieces and they're great training wills But you need to grow past those and become a chef And not everyone needs to be chefs, but you know, but Become a way of being able to look at the pieces that you have in front of you And and be able to build something new and share that because one of the things I thought on the manifesto was done really well that we found away You know, and that's what they they opened it up with that I found a way And we want to help others to do it and I thought that was the thing that when ward published the The manifesto out not just the signature portion of it is But people like you brian and others went off and started helping people to go do that and this community has This this whole festival is about giving back and helping because we've been through the trenches So I I think getting back to where we're going in the next, you know realm of all of this It's not the commercialization of agile agile isn't the destination building a better product as is the destination It's this community of practice getting together and being Where I can share an idea at a conference or are on a phone call or just being able to share things out and then that idea, you know that the the infection of the idea because ideas are infectious they jump from brain to brain that that infection It just literally gets other people to come up with new ideas and then share those ideas with us And then I think that was what jeff was saying was I really want to hear about new ideas. I'm tired of hearing about scrum personally I know for people it's new for them. That's good, but I want to hear about the new stuff I want to hear about the cool things somebody did with the pattern You know, anyway Who's next brian? over to you, uh, I I predict that sometime within the next 20 years. I will die Other than that, I have no predictions for the future There's my predictions for the future have not actually Been very accurate in the past and I see no reason to think they're gonna get any better now I I want to do some of the what would you add to the manifesto because I have a whole talk on that Good stuff Okay, well, I'm gonna give I'm gonna so a slight follow-on from what we're just talking about I love jeff's Point about how do we get those people starting their journey to inspire us? But I'm gonna ask, you know, if you could give one sort of piece of advice To someone who is here today this evening this afternoon this morning wherever we are in the world And we're a very small world here today Now what advice would that be to help them start that journey? What what advice what organic information piece of information would you sort of share with them? Um, and I get that in from jeff's point We would want to get something in return as well from them But what would you guys give them to help them start their journey? And again anyone who's got a point, please step in So so my my thing would be this and Please read the manifesto Because most people who start their journey Skip by that really quick and really do the assessment when you're looking at the principles Ask yourself the question again, like I said earlier, what is easy and hard to do? And if you take a you know, just create a list And then say that this is the hardest thing to go change in in in my universe in my world And it's going to take months and you know big projects to go often go do Duck on that thing first because we tend to go work on the biggest ugliest things as engineers first Versus go to the bottom of the list of the easiest thing that you can change today to make your life a little bit better And my take is work on that one first change that thing Have a party, you know celebrate that you got that done and then roll on to the next Easier thing to go fix Based on that that would be my advice Nice nice advice really. Thank you very much jeff hand up I saw Some of the questions coming just coming up on my screen So one of them stuck in my head and it's one that I don't have an answer to but it's one I'm going to link here, which was how well do we think universities are teaching agile And I don't know about anybody else, but I don't I don't know the answer to that right But I would like to I think it's relevant to the question you've asked jobs for me And if I I think if universities are doing their job well, they're teaching people to be curious They're teaching people to respect the past but create the future with curiosity I think that's what I would be encouraging people to do whether they're at university or not is Learn other people's lessons because you can avoid some serious pain that way But that doesn't mean that what they did is going to be right for you And and so having that healthy respect for the past but a healthy bravery for creating something new Would be my number one message for anybody Brilliant fantastic jeff. Thanks very much guys. We've got obviously yogan and brian uh Two things uh since most everybody is doing some sort of scrum Ken schwaeber wrote an obscure but I What I think or at least thought at the time it's been a long time was a really good book about scrum And it was basically Stories About how people in particular scrum teams acted in exemplary ways Uh, like for example, I have often used the story of the scrum master and the furniture police As an example of what a scrum master would be So I won't tell the story of the scrum master and the furniture police So that somebody will have to buy the book to get it. I wish I could remember the name of the book I will bounce off and and find it and put it in some place where people can see it The second thing is One of the nice things in Kent Beck's First edition of his book on extreme programming was he had a A little graph that showed how the 10 or 12 or whatever core practices of extreme programming Cooked up together and supported each other and I liked that Because it made a big It there was a big emphasis on how some of these practices are difficult And that you need more self-discipline To do agile Then you need for conventional software development And that you have to invent Ways tools practices habits that force self-discipline On you when you would ordinarily be weak So the idea that I guess self-discipline is the first thing and Think about what it is about your working environment that encourages you to be disciplined Versus not contestant Brian great point Yeah, then um I would like to summarize it with ash moria's quote. I love the problem not the solution I have seen for the last 20 years far too much focus on solutions on people building stuff Without having full understanding of what problem they are actually solving The first thing I would tell people forget all the agile practices Go and check out jobs to be done theory What is the actual job that the customer is trying to do? They ask you for a drill the famous example, but they don't want a drill They don't want a hole in the wall. They want to put a picture on the wall. That's what they like They want to decorate their room. That's the job that you're helping them out with now A hole in the wall is one possible solution in order to get there But there are other avenues of getting there the customer asks you for a bridge But that's not that's a solution what they actually want is they want to get on the other side of the river Because they're traveling so That's far too little understanding still in my opinion in the agile community. What is the job? There is a lot of focus on Creating a backlog and lots of user storage and the customer wants this and the customer wants that All right, maybe Maybe do not listen to the customer for a while I have been in a situation that listened to customers far too much and just did whatever they asked But the customer had no clue because they the customer things in terms of solutions The customer finds it very hard to think in terms of what problem do they actually have And that should be more of our focus. What problem are we trying to solve for them? because The customer often has difficulty even describing it or realizing it but we need to observe we need to investigate And analyze and then when we see the real problem We could have very different solutions that are simpler more effective and more successful and the customer says Oh my god, you had you really nailed it. That's not exactly not what I asked, but that's that's it We are a long way from there in my opinion Okay, well We have got now some a lot of questions as we can see there's there's 59 questions that have come in from our community Already this evening and of course we are coming back to a proper full-on open mic Q&A session at the end of the evening afternoon morning Once we've had Laura come and share her amazing talk and so all of us will be back again But if there's a question here that you see on screen that you would like to answer We would like to just get one at a time You know choose a question answer it and hopefully then the team behind the scenes will refresh So another one can come up and the next person can choose one question answer it And we'll move on round in a sort of pattern like that So are there any questions there that any of the expert panel would like to provide an answer for? Brian really wants to talk about changes to the agile manifesto. So I want to I want to hear that as well Yeah, go Brian go I'm opening up the presentation that I made Called agile 10 years later but It keeps stealing the go-to meeting keeps stealing my screen And I don't know if I can remember all of them Well, I don't know that this is going to work I'll Try to remember there were I think five new ones. I add a discipline might have been one of them I know that one of them was Ease working with ease I even made a posters For that that I used to give out to clients That said work with ease or yeah work with ease My wife Does surgery? And or she used to before she retired She used to occasionally do surgery and she would describe working with a Really good surgical team Where she is just Talking through what she's thinking of and she makes this gesture that She'll just reach out her hand and the proper instrument will Appear as if by magic in her hand and then The same movement she Plunge it is it into the abdomen of a cow because she did surgery on cows And one of the things I noticed about successful agile teams Was that feeling of ease? and I think it's an important I don't know practice is Find the things that are rough and feel like friction in The process of doing the work and getting rid of those that just seemed to be a practice of good teams um, I had joy in there for Jurgen But he's already covered that one of the Other ones that I thought was interesting was that Good agile teams seem to be reactive rather than proactive Instead of planning to get something done they and performing it they Work on their skill at reacting to surprise And and being able to gracefully change their course Whether that course is what the product should do or how the code should be created and so forth um And though there were others but those are the two I can remember and I really like the work with ease one because I that seems to be one of those things that People don't think is important, but is actually very important If I remember any others I'll Try it Brian, thank you. Thank you very much Obviously, uh, Jeff ray Jurgen Are there any other questions that you've either seen flashing up on screen or up here now That you would like to drop into and just provide a short answer We've got about seven eight minutes left before we hand over to our second event of the evening After Well, I actually I just wanted to briefly respond add on to brian with it Is reactive mode one the thing that has bugged me for 20 years was this responding to change In the agile manifesto. Why not causing the change? Because if you're always responding to change, you're never the leader in an industry Elon musk is now the richest man in the world and he did not respond to change He caused the change that others had to respond to that's innovation So I think we have to move from agile to innovation at certain times Be disruptive and cause the change that others will have to scramble to To adapt to so that's what I would love to change about the manifesto By definition there Jurgen there can only be a small proportion of people who are causing the change If everyone else is scrambling after it Yeah, yeah It's it's something that we that's and I think that's the beauty for me of this is that Yeah, you can apply this to innovation and you can apply this to maintenance You can apply these principles to to different ways of working and whatever circumstances you find yourselves in Um the question that that I would have picked out although I can't see anymore Was something to do with how do you stop? Um zombie scrum or bastardizing agile? And I wouldn't really put my energy into that Um personally, I think even zombie scrum has its place. It's all part of learning. It's all part of Do the organizations that do it well do it better The organizations that don't either fail because they don't do it well or they learn very quickly to do it better Um, so I wouldn't suggest I try and try and over empathize like I said and say well everyone is trying to do their best right now No one's trying to be a failure. No one's trying to do things badly um And so, you know appreciate the efforts they're making Give them the benefit of the doubt and be there to catch them and help them get up and go again So don't try and stop it because that implies a judgment to me Right To add to to what you all have said I agree with with all of it Is that there's a couple of ideas that are in the manifesto that are not really Explored one is we we put that term of um, we want to have sustainability in development And sustainability is it can be a big word. It's you know, you can pack a lot into that But I'd like to explore and as we go forward of what does that mean? Is it just You know Scrum isn't here or any of the agile methods are not here to torture anybody It should be a sustainable pace of development that we can go create But to Juergen's point as well is is just that if you look at the learning fast and the empathy Equation of learning fast Sometimes what we learn we don't like But we learn it and the question of how we pivot and how we move on from an idea to a new idea And let that organic, you know in back to Dave Snowden and his what he talks about in the connevin model Which is you know when we're dealing with Great degrees of complexities and guess what humans are complex creatures We we need more empathy To be added into this and then we just need to learn and pivot and do things in a way that people just don't get all wrapped around the axle about Deliverates and deadlines and all of these other things that I hear that when you actually push on somebody and say Why is that delivery date there?  We know the story is going to unfold If we put energy towards it, it's going to unfold. Let's put the empathy into the equation and let's Let's use that in a way that we could move forward more effectively together than just We haven't been I think Right. I mean fantastic pointer for us to I think start our wrap up of our panel discussion um Thank you to everybody who's obviously Adding the questions as I mentioned Our sort of fourth and final part of today's event is the the big panel q&a discussion at the end So, um, please do keep the questions coming because we will try and get through as many as possible and also get our guests to help choose the questions that they think they want to answer and share with you guys as the community so Back to brian's piece with the stories. Funny. We um, actually the community the committee team here today we're thinking about getting The community and speakers and guests and other angiolistas around the world to help Create an ebook if you like of stories of the things where it has worked well Where it hasn't worked well in organizations to share those real world learnings We've already sort of started the the Organizing and everything else and it would be great obviously if we can follow up with you all and obviously our Future speakers as well to take part in that to add your sort of view of the snapshots at the 20 year mark And what we've been through that the successes the failures the highs the lows and everything else again I think it has a great reflection to help inspire that next generation who are coming on behind us Brian I hope in 20 years. You're not dead. Uh, it would be it would be nice if that wasn't the case I'd rather be dead than old Well, look guys, um, I personally want to say thank you very much for an absolutely incredible panel discussion I know some of you guys are coming up next as well in terms of the TEDx lightning talks And hopefully as we've seen we've been sharing some of the demographics where all of our amazing Audience are coming along to from the world today And I'm sure Jonathan will be able to give us an update when he comes on in a minute Knowing where all of the the people of the community are turning up and watching us from today So gents, thank you very much Major appreciation major shout outs to obviously Ray Brian, Jeff and Jürgen. Thanks guys And obviously we'll see you later at the panel discussion All right, so now without further ado, it's great that we are about to enter into our second part today I'm going to invite my good friend and colleague and partner Jonathan to come back on


Hello friends, it's Sandy Alnach and today I have the new brand new release from Colorado Craft with Anita Jerome images and A whole bunch of tips to spice up your scene layouts on your cards So I'm gonna talk you through the process that I went through as I was looking at the stamps and deciding what to do with them Let's get started The first stamp set is called Winter Wonderland and it has a scene that you can stamp all as one But it also has just the bunny and whatever this little character is. I don't know what What species he is necessarily But I decided I wanted to turn him into something else Which is what caused me to come up with my first tip, which is to stamp in a light colored ink If you stamp in something that you can alter Then you can change elements of it much more easily than if you have a black line So I stamped all of the images for this video in a craft colored ink and it doesn't matter which craft colored ink as long as it works with the medium that you have and This one in particular. I wanted to change this from a rabbit and a whatever the critter it is to a rabbit and a penguin and That's where I went with this. I also decided to keep the scene really soft almost like a foggy winter scene So the card is this one And you can see here whatever animal that was before whatever Whatever that was I changed it into a penguin and all I did was leave white around the two eyes give them a little beak and Put black above that and just coloring the paw and a little bit down the side and this paw That's enough to convey that it's a penguin so you can turn almost any animal into a penguin Very easily if you stamp in a light ink This stamp is not in this set, but it's in one that I'll show you in just a minute the background for it I decided to keep it really soft because as I was coloring these in I wanted the focus to be zoomed in on them If I had put a big old background behind it, it would have been hard unless I made it really dark To create something where these two were the star This little guy also needed to be way up in the front Because if he was on the same plane if he was the same distance right standing right here beside the rabbit He would be a ginormous mouse So I wanted him to look like he was forward a little so he's a little bigger And that's why I stamped him closer to the viewer and Once I had made this really soft forest in the background that just fades off It's just super soft. I added a tree back here just a Charlie Brown Christmas tree It needed a little something to balance it and I also added snow underneath There's footprints for the mouse footprints for the rabbit and the penguin and then just a little bit of a hillside in here just to give them a path so that there's a place they're walking to they're going to a party and This I'm not sure in the stamp set if that it looks like it may be an envelope not really positive But I decided to make it a gift so all I had to do was color it in and put a bow on top Really easy to do that this stamp set is called but first presence and it has this little mouse This is the one that I added in here And if you want to see if your stamp like this stamp looks like the right size Or whatever you're going to pair it with just hold the stamps next to each other and Gauge whether or not one looks like it's out of characteristically too big for the other And just separate them in the layout. Okay onto this card. Now. I wanted to do something here where This guy was going to be closer to the packages. So the cat needed to be nudged over I Want because I didn't want this guy to be tossing the package on there now These are two separate stamps. So I was able to move it really easily but then I was Thinking originally about maybe adding more packages a whole bunch more and making it go all the way down the card And then putting a chair or something underneath of this guy So I stamped the two of them really close to each other in the same crafting and Let me show you how that worked What I was thinking was if I moved them up Then that changes their perspective if they were on a chair They would be higher up then if they were just sitting on the floor I could of course move the floor up if I wanted the floor here But as I started thinking about them having a different perspective. I also thought what if they were outside? What would they be on if they were outside? They might be on a big hillside of some kind now This is a very tall hillside. They would have quite the the challenge to hike up this thing to buy all these gifts up But what a whatever, you know, it's a story So this was needed in order to make that look like a hillside I needed something where I could draw the negative To do the negative drawing for the top part of this and I also tilted the feet So they go down that hillside a little bit and to make it really feel like it was way high up I put the clouds out there, but I also put trees here so that you're really getting the idea This is way high up in the air and it completely changes the perspective of what's going on in the stamp set So that was a really fun one This one's called sled bunny and it's got the sled and the bunny attached to each other You could detach them and make them any distance apart that you want But there's also a little mouse who's walking this direction so the two of them can be looking at each other and I did lay them down next to each other on sticky notes to see how Far this guy needed to be for the bunny to be looking at him because if you put him right here His head is not really looking down. So I had to put him out a little bit What I was originally thinking for this was to just do some coloring on these guys and put a little bit of snow at the bottom And not much else just to leave the focus more on them. All right, so the card I did the coloring on these three first and as I said I had to put him out here so I could see where the bunnies head looked like it would be looking toward and I wanted to have something very long and horizontal So that it was just a big non-descript sky back there all I had originally was just a sky And it was nice because it gave a soft balance to the strength of the coloring in these guys But it also needed a little bit of weight of some kind It was just too plain and If I were to put trees across the whole thing Then they would start fighting with these guys for attention So I decided to leave the trees over here and I did put one tree in the mid ground So this is the foreground the mid ground in the background I put one Charlie Brown Christmas tree in the mid ground and then the background back here I used an eraser to pull the whites out because this blue sky was so soft That I was able to to move those away You could also use a white pencil to add some mountains in there that are just Barely barely in the distance really soft that way and make sure that you add Little trail where the bunny is trudging along in the snow because that's gonna really help to make it look like he's walking in The snow and I used some white. I used some of this presto White talked about a little bit before this is basically the same thing as If you took typing class back in the day, this is that whiteout that we used to use it smells just like it But it's a pen style. It's just really hard to squeeze So if you have arthritis, don't get that But I did add a little bit above the tops of these to make the the sled look like it's sitting down in snow So if you have some images in the foreground Just make sure you keep strong background elements away from them unless they're strong enough and Solid enough to pull these to the foreground. This stamp set is called candy cane mice this is all one stamp and I was trying to figure out what story was being told here and I wanted to make something different something unique and What I thought about was another stamp set that I came out last year or the year before and it has another little mouse Who's hanging or taking down a stocking? So for this guy, I put the image here at the bottom so that they could be in the foreground And this little mouse Is back here and I gave him a little tree another I was into charlie brown brown trees I I made him hanging his stocking or taking his stocking down from the tree And had a little saggy star on top What I created a path going between the two of them It's real easy to make a scene back here and a scene up here But not have them be connected But I made what looks like a very messy trail that they were taking their stockings And dragging them through the snow and you can see footprints all over the place. It makes kind of a mess And that's where they ended up just dropping everything Now this stamp set is probably meant to be inside. They probably stole some kids stocking But here I decided to make it outside By creating this story that there's a tree over there where all their stockings were hung And then just some barely there kind of background So you can give yourself more perspective by by joining the elements of the scene And giving there giving some kind of a path for the figures in the scene to follow This stamp set is called Dear Santa And it's one of those that again has all the images together. So there's a dog a rabbit and a mouse They're all putting their mail in the box But the post box is here This little guy is separate here. This one is turned this way And you know like he he would be standing up in order to put the mail in the box And here's the rabbit However What I saw as soon as I saw this laying down I saw him looking this way And what what could I do with a stamp that's facing this way instead of facing this way? So I created something else entirely By making the dog lean out of a window I mean what fun is that all I had to do was mask out that portion of the dog I also masked out this thing at the bottom because he's holding more mail So I just drew a paw in here on the window I made perspective for this window if you wanted to make one I imagined a Vanishing point over here. So The bottom of the building goes here at the top of the building goes here They all point toward that vanishing point the window points there the top and the bottom of it and everything else here is vertical So pick your vanishing point if it's over here and all of those things go that direction Oh, where did this little mouse come from? This mouse came from another mini stamp set with this little sweet mouse in it so I thought the two of them exchanging cards and gifts would be good and decided to combine those And again, I gave a trail to This stamp and I gave a shadow to this one now When I was trying to figure out where the shadow would be I went down You know the dog's body is going to be sticking out between these two boards So I made the shadow come out between those two boards that works if it's noon If the sun is coming from directly above Because that's where the shadow is going to be coming straight down Now I did decide to use this for one more card because I wanted to use the post box I really wanted to use that And I also wanted to figure out if you were a rabbit and you didn't have a friend Who could help you get your mail into the mailbox? Yes, I do tell myself stories like this. If you were a rabbit, what would you do? How would you get your mail into the box if you were alone? And what I did was mask out this line on that stamp And I masked out the bottom So that I could create a snow drift that the rabbit could walk up And be able to fit The mail into the slot I mean, I thought there was kind of a cool solution for a rabbit to wait for the snow to pile up that much So now the rabbit can get his mail to Santa Claus all by himself Isn't that cute? All of these cards were so much fun to make and if you let yourself think outside the box It's really amazing the kinds of work that you can create All right. Thank you so much for joining me. I will see you again next week another video Take care and have an awesome weekend. Go create something every day