Agile is a Libertarian

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AGILE IS A LIBERTARIAN Sarah E. Welch @sarahewelch

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Just a little election year fun--if Agile were an eligible voter, Agile would be a registered Libertarian.

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AGILE IS A LIBERTARIANSarah E. Welch

@sarahewelch

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http://americainchains2009.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/freedom-vs-slavery-the-political-spectrum/

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http://www.politisite.com/2011/09/30/take-the-nolan-chart-survey-where-do-you-really-fall-in-the-political-universe/

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Agile ManifestoWe are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.

Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.

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Libertarians Embrace• Limited government • Adhesion to the Constitutional framework• State’s power (10th Amendment) over Federal power

– The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

• Look to our Founding Fathers for wisdom

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Roots of Libertarianism• Began in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government

and away from aristocracy• Libertarianism—or classical Liberalism—grew out of the philosophers of

the Enlightenment and the discovery of natural laws• John Locke’s theory of social contract

– individuals would agree to form a state that would provide a "neutral judge", acting to protect the lives, liberty, and property of those who lived within it.

– Which led to “government with the consent of the governed”

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OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

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Men of Science & Reason– Jefferson

• “Science is my passion, politics my duty.”– Washington

• While not a formal scientist, but…• Learned mathematics as a surveyor• Conducted scientific experiments at Mount Vernon• Offered to send soldiers to help excavate a mastodon discovered in NY• Said to have been taking his own pulse at the moment he died

– Adams• Studied physics at Harvard• Helped found the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

– Franklin – America’s foremost scientist of his day

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The Great Experiment

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A Mathematician chimes in…• In an advancing society, any restriction

on liberty reduces the number of things tried and so reduces the rate of progress. In such a society freedom of action is granted to the individual, not because it gives him greater satisfaction but because if allowed to go his own way he will on the average serve the rest of us better than under any orders we know how to give.

• H. B. Phillips

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Founders as Agilists?: Washington

– Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

– We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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Founders as Agilists?: Jefferson

– It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

– I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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Founders as Agilists?: Franklin

– Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

– Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

– Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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Practitioners not Pundits

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Modern Individual = Agile Individual?

• The historian of science Gerald Horton defined a modern individual in terms of four criteria:– ‘Being an informed participant citizen’– ‘Having a marked sense of personal efficacy (being

able to control one’s own destiny and events in the world)’

– ‘Being highly independent and autonomous’– ‘Being open to new ideas and experiences’

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I think that ultimately, Extreme Programming has mushroomed in use and interest, not because of pair-programming or refactoring, but because, taken as a whole, the practices define a developer community freed from the baggage of Dilbertesque corporations.

Agile Manifesto History

Agile is Liberty

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Questions?That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring.

Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism

Sarah E. Welch@[email protected]