#theAgileTao Archives - The Agile20Reflect Festival Archive

This event is part of the #Agile20eflect festival and dedicated to Scott Seivwright who managed to bring his vision to life!
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There’s a lovely Taoist story about Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzu tasting vinegar. But what can that have to do with the Agility?
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Confucius, having clear specifications, rejected the vinegar.
Buddha recognized defects as inevitable and saw that they’re best accepted through the right ways of thinking, working, and learning.
Meanwhile, Lao Tzu saw mutual-benefit as the only thing worth testing and the main objective of learning.
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In this panel, we will examine how the old story of the vinegar tasters bears on Agility, both in its ideal form and its present state.
Join us and get a glimpse a glimpse of how the agile mindset is related to ancient philosophy.
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Participants:
– Nick Argall, an agile coach who studied Chinese medicine and philosophy.
– Peter Merel, first XP adopter outside Chrysler, inventor of the first agile game, speaker at the first agile conference, author of the Agile Tao, and founder of the XSCALE Alliance,
– Amaranatho(short) after a degree in AI, and spending 15 years as a Buddhist monk, is now a mindfulness-based executive and agile mindset coach, with the PlayfulMonk approach he developed.

The talk will be moderated by Dov Tsal – An agile and executive coach and eternal beginner who is always on the search for fresh perspectives.

Agility started (if there was a starting point) not 20 years ago, but 2000 years ago with the first Agile coach – Lao Tzu.

Join us and discover the story of Lao-Tzu, the first Agile coach, and what he had to say about leadership styles, flow, resistance and hierarchy (and life 🙂

19. Mindset (xv)

Agility is practical, not mystical –
A way of working, not a state of grace.

Listening as if crossing thin ice,
Testing as if surrounded by danger,
Learning as in a strange land,
Simplifying as thawing snow,
Integrating as the deep woods,
Leading as the river valley,
Innovating as the spring silt.

Imagine the ice solid or the stream clear,
Stop to plan your way ahead,
Ignore what moves underfoot;
You fall and disappear.

Dov Tsal is an agile coach, a self-proclaimed Taoist, and a noise-maker.

Peter Merel – the author of the Agile Tao – has coached XP years before Snowbird, he traces the agile origins back another 3,000 years. Peter first spoke on the “Tao of XP” at XP2K, the first agile conference.

Peter’s famous translation of Lao Tzu into an agile context, and Dov Tsal’s podcast that focuses on it, provide a way to apply this ancient perspective to your organization’s culture in a contemporary and immediately practical way.

The Vinegar Tasters: a Taoist, a Buddhist and a Confucian walk into Agility… (Panel)

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