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Aims  

•  This  ligh*ng  talk  aims  to  explore,  from  an  holis*c  point  of  view  as  opposed  to  the  reduc*onist  thinking,  how  the  Lean  Agile  methodologies  can  be  considered  as  part  of  the  “turning  point”  in  the  crisis  of  Western  reduc*onist  way  of  thinking.  

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Yin  &  Yang  

•  In  the  Chinese  culture   and   are  never  associated  with  moral  values.  

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EARTH   SKY  

MOON   SUN  

NIGHT   DAY  

WINTER   SUMMER  

WET   DRY  

COLD   HOT  

INTERNAL   SURFACE  

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FEMALE   MALE  

CONTRACTIVE   EXPANSIVE  

CONSERVATIVE   DISSIPATIVE  

RESPONSIVE   AGGRESSIVE  

COOPERATIVE   COMPETITIVE  

INTUITIVE   RATIONAL  

SYNTHETIC   ANALYTIC  

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Our  culture  

•  If  you  consider  this  set  of  values  is  easy  to  see  how  our  society  has  constantly  favoured  the  

at  the  expense  of  the   .  

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Yang  over  Yin  

•  ra*onal  knowledge  over  intui*ve  wisdom  •  compe**on  over  coopera*on  •  exploita*on  of  resources  with  respect  to  conserva*on  

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Two  Paradigms  

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Reduc*onism  

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Reduc*onism  

can  mean  either  •  (a)  an  approach  to  understanding  the  nature  of  complex  things  by  reducing  them  to  the  interac*ons  of  their  parts,  or  to  simpler  or  more  fundamental  things  or  

•  (b)  a  philosophical  posi*on  that  a  complex  system  is  nothing  but  the  sum  of  its  parts,  and  that  an  account  of  it  can  be  reduced  to  accounts  of  individual  cons*tuents.  

from  Wikipedia,  the  free  encyclopedia  

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Holism  

(from  ὂλος  holos,  a  Greek  word  meaning  all,  whole,  en*re,  total),  is  the  idea  that  natural  systems  (physical,  biological,  chemical,  social,  economic,  mental  linguis*c,  etc.)  and  their  proper*es,  should  be  viewed  as  wholes,  

•  not  as  collec*ons  of  parts.  

from  Wikipedia,  the  free  encyclopedia  

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Holism  

•  Science  itself  is  demanding  a  new,    non-­‐fragmentary  world  view,  in  the  sense  that  the  present  approach  of  analysis  of  the  world  into  independent  elementary  parts  does  not  work  very  well  in  modern  physics.  

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Two  Paradigms  

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Holons  

•  A    (Greek:  ὅλον,  holon  neuter  form  of  ὅλος,  holos  "whole")  is  something  that  is  simultaneously  a  whole  and  a  part.  

•  The  word  was  coined  by  Arthur  Koestler  in  his  book  The  Ghost  in  the  Machine  (1967,  p.  48).  

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Holons  

•  Koestler  proposed  the  word  holon  to  describe  the  hybrid  nature  of  sub-­‐wholes  and  parts  within  in  vivo  systems.  

•  From  this  perspec*ve,  holons  exist  simultaneously  as  self-­‐contained  wholes  in  rela*on  to  their  sub-­‐ordinate  parts,  and  dependent  parts  when  considered  from  the  inverse  direc*on.  

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Holons  

 are  autonomous,  self-­‐reliant  units  that  possess  a  degree  of  independence  and  handle  con*ngencies  without  asking  higher  authori*es  for  instruc*ons.  

•  These  holons  are  also  simultaneously  subject  to  control  from  one  or  more  of  these  higher  authori*es.    

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Holons  

•  A    is  a  system  (or  phenomenon)  which  is  an  evolving  self-­‐organizing  dissipa*ve  structure,  composed  of  other  holons,  whose  structures  exist  at  a  balance  point  between  chaos  and  order.    

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Autopoiesis  

 (from  Greek  αὐτo-­‐  (auto-­‐),  meaning  "self",  and  ποίησις  (poiesis),  meaning  "crea*on,  produc*on")  literally  means  "self-­‐crea*on"  and  expresses  a  fundamental  dialec*c  among  structure,  mechanism  and  func*on.  

•  The  term  was  introduced  in  1972  by  Chilean  biologists  Humberto  Maturana  and  Francisco  Varela.  

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Cynevin  framework  

•  The   draws  on  research  into  complex  adap*ve  systems  theory,  cogni*ve  science,  anthropology  and  narra*ve  pagerns,  as  well  as  evolu*onary  psychology.  

•  It  “explores  the  rela*onship  between  man,  experience  and  context”  and  proposes  new  approaches  to  communica*on,  decision-­‐making,  policy-­‐making  and  knowledge  management  in  complex  social  environments.  

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Cynefin  

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How’d  we  do  it?  Quantum  theory  

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Bootstrap  model  

•  In  physics,  the  term  bootstrap  model  is  used  for  a  class  of  theories  that  use  very  general  consistency  criteria  to  determine  the  form  of  a  quantum  theory  from  some  assump*ons  on  the  spectrum  of  par*cles.  

•  It  is  a  form  of  S-­‐matrix  theory.  

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Living  systems  are  complex,  in  that  they  consist  of  a  great  many  agents  interac*ng  with  each  

other  in  a  great  many  ways  

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The  interac*on  of  individual  agents  is  governed  by  simple,  localized  rules  

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The  richness  of  the  interac*ons  of  the  agents  allows  the  system  as  a  whole  to  undergo  

spontaneous  self-­‐organiza*on  

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Agile  is  heavyweight  on  prac*ces  and  lightweight  on  theory  

Dave  Snowden  

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How’d  we  do  it?  Theories  to  understand  why  Agile  works  

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and    :  the  science  of  

uncertainty    :  the  nature  of  human  

decision  making    &   :  

the  origins  of  social  interac*on  &  its  nature        

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•  Recent  scien*fic  discoveries  indicate  that  all  life  –  from  the  most  primi*ve  cells,  up  to  human  socie*es,  corpora*ons  and  na*on-­‐states,  even  the  global  economy  –  is  organized  along  the  same  basic  pagerns  and  principles:  

those  of  

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•  Both  (Lean  &  Agile)  offer  a  thinking  tool  set  that  allow  us  to  create  new  models  and  different  approaches.  

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•  Hence,  in  this  ligh*ng  talk  I  would  like  to  affirm  how  *ghtly  humans  are  connected  with  the  fabric  of  life  and  make  it  clear  that  it  is  impera*ve  to  organize  our  world  according  to  a  different  set  of  values  and  beliefs.  

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Agile  is  a  framework  or  frame  of  mind.    

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thanks  

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Fabio  Armani  www.open-­‐ware.org  

@fabioarmani  f.armani@open-­‐ware.org  

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