From: "banshee858" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: [XP] Improvement vs. Change
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> As I was reading my copy of XP2E, I was struck by the first
> sentence "XP is about social change" and that prompted my to reflect
> on my efforts to create a more Agile environment for myself. It has
> been my experience that many organizations want improvement, but I
> have yet to encounter one who wants social change. If that is the
> case, am I just seeting myself up for an exercise in frustration
> where eventually I just decide to change my environment?
>
> If an organziation does not identify with the need for social change,
> what hope is there for XP, or Agile in general, at that location?
> What characteristics of organization suggest it is ready for social
> change as opposed to merely improvement?
I've worked in several that have gone through rather
explicit social change processes. I won't say that any
of them had really good outcomes, but part of that was
because they didn't have what I've seen as the basic
requirement for pervasive social change: a highly charismatic
leader with the energy of a bulldozer and a vision who is
willing to stick it out for the five years or so necessary for
the new structure to settle in and get a sufficiently large core
of people that understood the new structure for it to become
self-sustaining.
Social change is a very basic part of the Lean movment,
for example, and it's quite explicit. "We're going to change
everything you ever
thought you knew about how to do manufacturing, and
that doesn't just mean the shop floor. That means every
department in the company."
John Roth
>
> Carlton
>
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