aic anon: Uncovering the agile conspiracy
Summary
My name is #AICAnon, I am an agile whistleblower and I have discovered the #AIC (Agile Industrial Complex) hiding in plain sight. I'll share my discoveries and uncover the #AIC plot to murder agile. You'll come away with the knowledge of how the #AIC operates, learn how to deflect their attempts at sabotage, and how to call out their behavior so others can uncover them in action.
Outline
This talk will be built in Mural I'll begin with an image that looks like a detective murder board filled with polaroids, and other artifacts, connected by red yarn symbolizing my discovery process. In turn, I'll move on to close-ups of those images and discuss what I saw and what it meant to the organization being targeted.
The original #AIC murder board I created was artifacts on two Post-it posters
- Board one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h10wej51r7azdds/BoardOne.jpg?dl=0
- Board two: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs19iwgadlwk4fp/BoardTwo.jpg?dl=0
Intro - Who is #AICAnon? Who is the #AIC and how did I uncover them?
I'll display one section of the board per talking point and talk through how it fits with the discoveries I’ve made into the way they work.
Wrap up - Summary of what this meant for the organizations that I’ve been a part of.
Remainder of timebox - Q&A where participants can discuss whether they've encountered the #AIC and what they’ve seen so we can share knowledge for stopping this insanity in the future.
Sections of the Mural murder board will include:
- How the #AIC brings the same solution to every problem
- How the #AIC ignores the Agile Manifesto and the Scrum Guide
- How the #AIC bring hundreds of slide decks with vague info
- How the #AIC attempts to replace existing people
- How the #AIC push the same tools on everyone
- How the #AIC change job titles but nothing else
- How the #AIC talks in circles
- How the #AIC starts with execs that nobody will question
- How the #AIC always start at scale
- How the #AIC convinces you that you can add hundreds of coaches and Scrum Masters that they alone are able to provide
- How the #AIC claim to give you things for free, like more slide decks, so you think they are altruistic
- How the #AIC fails every time and after millions of dollars spent, they move on to the next org, selling the next engagement by changing the org name on their existing slide decks
Final powerful question - How will you proceed when you discover the #AIC in your organization?
Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand what the #AIC is and why it's so insidious
- Highlight the downside to working alongside the #AIC
- Learn how to spot an infiltration in your company
- Predict what will happen to any agile advancement once the #AIC is involved
- Question whether #AIC initiatives can be ignored or if they need intervention
- Reflect on times that you’ve seen the #AIC in action
Presentation History
LAST Adelaide 2023
LAST Melbourne 2022