Saving the World

Reos is an international consulting organization that specializes in facilitating change in complex social systems.  They have launched a new program involving multiple projects and hundreds of participants investigating the world financial crisis, how to grow out of it, and how to prevent a future repeat.  The individual projects are going to be spikes driven by prior scenario work generated by multiple sponsors.

Given the ambiguity of the scope and the sheer magnitude of this program, the only feasible approach is to manage it using Agile Methods.  We have set up a tiered scrum of scrums approach with product owners from several research institutions and we are using tools and techniques that are familiar to us all.  [Version One is donating licenses to the program to allow us to monitor and report on progress]

This talk will introduce the project and show how the practices (specifically transparency, metaphor, planning game, pairing, and small releases) were translated.  We will review some of the methods and the reviews and reports that we are using to drive the project forward.  We will also invite the audience to think “outside of their box” and look into their communities for areas that they can use Agile Methods and XP practices to help save the world!