Author: Oluf Nissen

Announcing the launch of a new alliance

Posted on by Oluf Nissen

Today I am excited and proud to launch a new alliance* in the agile software development field: The SELF-CARE Alliance (Sustaining Everyone Longing For – Community of Agile RespitE, [or make your own acronym])

Any good alliance needs a few things: membership qualifications, a certification program, an FAQ, a badge / logo / seal, and a manifesto – what am I forgetting?

Anyway, starting from the back, going in random order:

The manifesto: You are agile enough! That’s it. Doesn’t get much simpler than that. No tensions, dualities, values, or any of that. Enough said.

Membership qualification: You become a member by realizing that you have enough knowledge, enough skills, enough training, enough certificates, enough letters behind your name on LinkedIn, enough pages in your resume, enough experience, enough confidence, enough self-control, enough capability to connect and help where needed. Simply put – you are enough, just the way you are.

The certification program: No expensive classes, no gatekeepers, no bar of excellence to meet, no travel to take, no exam to pass, no committee to convince, no new version of a framework to master, no membership dues, no renewal fees, no nothing. You just decide that you have had enough, and declare yourself an AC-e – “Agile Certified – enough”. That’s it. The final letters for putting after your name on your LinkedIn profile.

The FAQ:

Why?

Because you’re enough. You don’t need to chase “more”. It’s all good. You’ve GOT this.

Do you have a theme song?

Yes! Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are” – not applied to some imaginary “other”, but to yourself.

Do you have a badge I can put on my website, resume, etc.?

You bet:

 

Is there more?

No. That’s enough.

If you’d like to signal to others that you’re joining this alliance, please do so here:

* It’s a pretty small alliance right now, with a membership of one (the author). I wrote this mostly as a reminder to myself. Maybe it’s helpful to you as well.

2020-04-30 20:51

Posted on by Oluf Nissen

Let me ask you: If you could no longer buy non-consumable things, could you make a good life for yourself? This may be a question you need to think deeply about and examine from different angles, and I don’t really need you to answer it here. I just wanted to put it out there.

Originally posted on 2020-04-30 at 20:51 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6661728763132416002

2020-04-30 17:53

Posted on by Oluf Nissen

After participating in the series of conversations that the Co-Active Training Institute is hosting in these days of Covid-19 (https://lnkd.in/gtWCZiu), it occurred to me that maybe we’ve all been thrown into the prototypical story of “The Hero’s Journey”. Almost by definition, that means we’re facing something we don’t know how to deal with, something scary, something new and unfamiliar, something uncomfortable.

For each of us, there is a test. What story do you want to tell about that test in ten years? What story do you want others to tell in ten years? What story will we collectively tell each other in ten years?

For those of you who are able to use this time for introspection – what is your favorite “Hero’s Journey” story?

How could that story inspire what you think about and what you can do?

#CoActive #CTI #Story #HerosJourney #Future

Originally posted on 2020-04-30 at 17:53 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6661683926379175938