It turns out there’s need for Agile and Lean in DAOs. Since inter-disciplinary groups come together to create things, but both the targets and the team members change fluidly. This is makes big upfront planning almost impossible, and way easier with Agile’s continuous delivery of value to the end user.
Still Agile has its own techniques which are necessary to hit the ground running and not trip up.
So to get yourself up to speed, here’s a quick starter pack:
- The Original Agile Manfesto (2 minutes)
- A few Decisions Hacks: The Action Zone, Learning Frames, Fuzziness (5 minutes)
- Intro to Agile methods (5 minutes)
- Agile tools and techniques (10 minutes)
- Fractalise (5 minutes)
- Squad priorities planning (3 minutes)
- Decentralised Agile (15 minutes)
- Remote @ Source (5 minutes)
Quite a few people are asking me for advice, so start with the above. Afterwards, if you’d like me to advise you, hit me up to see if I have time.
I’ll ask you to pick a project you’re working on (personal side projects are fine), and set yourself up a Pivotal Tracker board. This is the OG of Agile tracker boards, and has some useful guardrails and helpers to start you with the right habits. Then we’ll have something real to talk about, and can focus on getting the hang of it.
I’m a new parent, and prioritising my attention on our new rhythms as a family.
Work-wise, I’m trekking along at a cozy pace, doing stuff that doesn’t require meetings :)
I have a few non-exec/advisory roles for engineering edu programs. I’m also having fun making a few apps, going deep with zero-knowledge cryptography, and have learned to be a pretty good LLM prompt engineer.
In the past, I've designed peer-learning programs for Oxford, UCL, Techstars, Microsoft Ventures, The Royal Academy Of Engineering, and Kernel, careering from startups to humanitech and engineering. I also played a role in starting the Lean Startup methodology, and the European startup ecosystem. You can read about this here.
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