Confinement and Professional Darwinism

Kiron,

Let's see how well the remote live virtual session of Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master is prepared, it will be delivered by Saket Bansal. This weekend I booked a session in India of two days, apparently the session workshop uses zoom as tool.
i hope it goes well, i am still reading the book, but i have to recognize that once you enter the chapters of the process goals it becomes a bit tiring and sometimes repetitive.

Any way this is a proof the virtual live more democratic and accessible to more people is the only way that i person like me in Portugal can make a workshop in India. :)

Alexande

I agree that in the short term more people will work from home or wish to. However, I am not convinced that this situation will last with the pandemic under control.

That being said, in the new reality we may give more consideration to the value of work-at-home for a project than we have in the past. It comes down to a risk analysis - is there a project benefit or risk? The nature of the project and team/individual assigned may, or may not, be suitable.

Work-from-home is only viable when beneficial to both the project and the individual team member.

Dear Luis,

In relation to Darwin's Quote, the species has becoming stronger and more intelligent as a result of their ability to adapt to change.

Evolution is not change but the ability to build upon previous improvements and additions to the species.

This is no different to the human race as it will take some sorting out of the new norm, what worked, what did not work and finding an new happy medium and balance in which we all can work with in the confines of our planet.

I do not believe change comes in radical and far reaching steps but just like evolution slow and incremental steps over an extended period of time.

To maintain some semblance of normality until the COVID-19 outbreak has passed, it is important stay happy, healthy, informed, maintaining social contact through virtual channels, take up a new hobby that keeps your brain active, reach out to your neighbour's and friends and ensure that they keeping well.

Your can choose to look at the positive or negative side of the COVID-19 outbreak and whether you can gain a new insight as a result.

Daire

Dear Peter
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us

"Prognosis, only at the end of the game" as they say

I am convinced that nothing will be as before

For example: the biggest environmental shock (in a good way) happened because we stayed at home :-)

Dear Kiron
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us

And when heaven and earth change places?

In other words, when are the changes disruptive to the extent that they require profound changes to the content?

Dear Luis,

Examples from history teach us otherwise.

The Great War (WW2) was the called "the war to end all wars" yet this was not achieved.

The Versaille Treaty was enacted in order to prevent Germany from Starting another war yet this was not achieved.

The UN was Established in order to prevent war and World wars yet this dream was never realised.

The World Bank, IMF and Federal Reserve were born (WB and IMF after WW2) in order to prevent run on banks, bring financial stability and stop, boom and bust financial bubbles, however this was not realised.

The WHO was created in order to lead a global response to pandemic outbreaks however this was not realised.

Dictators were toppled in the middle east in order to fight the war on terror and bring democracy to these backward countries however this only exacerbated the problem and created policical crisis, created a new type of terrorism and started oil shortages.

History is littered with examples of the world limping from one crisis to the next and the hope that we will learn from each crisis to prevent the next crisis quickly evaporates.

So I do not think Karma and positive thinking is enough for their to be a dawn of reality for humans that will jerk them into a new golden age of enlightenment. It just another blip on the radar screen.

Daire

That will hopefully occur only after I retire, Luis :-)

That will hopefully occur only after I retire, Luis :-)