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#NOEMPLOYEES Eliminating the divide between managers and programmers & Antti Kirjavainen Juha Heimonen image: CC BYSA 2.0 by Solarisgirl
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From collective code ownership to collective ownership, period #NoEmployees is not a hashtag. Unless you want it to be. It’s not a movement. Unless you want it to be. It’s not a taboo, unless you want it to be. When Frederick Taylor introduced Scientific Management, he institutionalized the divide between the thinkers, managers, and the doers, workers. That institution spread to software development by the way of Project Management discipline. The industry wraps itself under very tightly knitted power structures, ranging from projects to organizational charts which mainly exists to subjugate people to a class hierarchy. Projects oppress, organizational charts oppress. The employment relationship ties the hands of both employees and employers. With Agile, we have tried to close that dividing gap. We have used values, principles and practices to try to achieve that. We have had successes, but they are few and far between. Maybe we need to shake up the power structures more to have a genuine impact? So let’s change things a bit. Let’s destroy. Let’s say No to employees. Let’s say No to management as well, but management, and employer, is but an employee to customer. Let’s say no, and bring everyone to collaborate and deliver like never seen before.
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#NOEMPLOYEESEliminating the divide between managers and programmers
& Antti Kirjavainen Juha Heimonen
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We are not 20 anymore.
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WE KNOW...... How we'd like things to be
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Mastery – Autonomy – Purpose
Holistic responsibility
Total self-organization
Collaboration
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WE HAVE TRIED ...... Many, many things
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VISION AND MISSIONSTATEMENTS
As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty,openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism,continual self-improvement, and mutual respect. We are
committed to our customers and partners and have a passion fortechnology. We take on big challenges, and pride ourselves on
seeing them through. We hold ourselves accountable to ourcustomers, shareholders, partners, and employees by honoringour commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest
quality.
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Agile Transformations
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And many more...
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LOT'S OF CHANGES!image: CC BYSA 2.0 by Solarisgirl
RESULTS?Sure, we've made progress in some places
But it has been a long hard journey
And in most places the status quo prevails
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WHERE DOES THISRESISTANCE COME
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Tayloristic model of management
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CAUSES OFRESISTANCE
Binary division of labor between employees and managers
Conflicting needs between employees and owners
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COULD THERE BEREALLY SIMPLE
SOLUTION?image: CC BYSA 2.0 by Solarisgirl
OUR SIMPLESTTHING
#NoEmployees
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#NOEMPLOYEESFellows
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HOW?Shared ownership
Access to shared ownership to new fellows
Shared work
Transparency
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Access to shared ownership to new fellows
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Transparency
Instant responsibility, instant self-organization
Ability to rapidly bring out and publish results and experiences
No brand
Scaling is super easy!
WHAT'S IN THIS FORYOU?
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How will the future pan out?
Maybe we’ve taken the wrong learning from the success ofavant-garde 21st century companies
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Maybe old (and big) dogs cannot learn new tricks
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Maybe we just need more new dogs instead.
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THE SHIFT ISALREADY
HAPPENINGBig companies need cutting-edge creative and knowledge work
done.
They turn to the small companies that have new ways ofworking.
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YOUR FUTURE #1?Alternative to big companies?
Networks of small #NoEmployees companies.
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YOUR FUTURE #2?Alternative way of helping corporations to enterprise
transformations?
Offer stuff they cannot do as services
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THANK YOU
Juha:
Antti:
www.flowa.fi
@FlowaWolf
@evilbubu
@anttiki
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