12th Principle

Bill Caputo has launched a twitter campaign to renew interest in the one organizational principle offered by the authors of the agile manifesto. site

"Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done."

Bill cleverley asked for tweets as signatures which engaged that social network. He captured these and appended them to his manifesto.

A flash crowd ensued.

I stumbled upon the phenomenon early saturday morning following a tweet from Ron Jeffries. 50 people has just signed it. How it this going to play out? Bill captured timestamps so I could chart the happening.

See the plot

One day has passed since I first noticed Bill's campaign to demand more from methodologists and the organizations they advise. I've made some observations.

I've learned a new word. Eudaimonia. The good composed of all goods; an ability which suffices for living well; perfection in respect of virtue; resources sufficient for a living creature. wikipedia

I recognize the boundedness of our manifesto's advice and agree that one principle is an exception.

I appreciate the launch and stand-back nature of the ask compared to the years of moderating I applied to the agile manifesto's endorsement workflow.

I'm coming around to appreciate the sincerity of the hashtag campaign. I had admired the mechanism but maybe not its intended effect. My suspicion says more about Twitter as a platform as it wallows in social network marketing. I've yet to sign.

I knocked out a plot page in html/javascript and then wrote about it in wiki. Why couldn't I do it all in wiki? This is a data wiki after all.

I started my statistics on the wrong foot by looking for javascript to compute the distribution. Better to just hand the data to Plotly and ask it for a histogram.

I wonder if one could launch a similar campaign in wiki if the federation had twitter's reach? Maybe not. Our slow and deliberate pace works against us here. Or does it?

I wonder if the 12th principle would be more easily met if work were more slow and deliberate? See Core Agile