{"id":1526,"date":"2022-10-04T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2022-10-04T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:58:08","slug":"agile-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"Agile Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/assassination-of-president-james-a_-garfield-illustration-0908221.jpg-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1529 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/assassination-of-president-james-a_-garfield-illustration-0908221.jpg-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/assassination-of-president-james-a_-garfield-illustration-0908221.jpg-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/assassination-of-president-james-a_-garfield-illustration-0908221.jpg-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/assassination-of-president-james-a_-garfield-illustration-0908221.jpg.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:28px\">On September 19, 1881, soon to be assassin Charles Giteau approached then President James A. Garfield and shot him in the back&#8230;and then Facebook happened. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only did this single event end the one and only true reconciliation movement in the US, but it changed the future in more ways than you can imagine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Technical innovations that we still use today were created to save his life.<\/li><li>Hospitals pivoted in a new direction that has save more lives than any other since.<\/li><li>Retail would soon explode into the profit goliaths that produce billions in sales.<\/li><li>Indoor dining became night on the town events.<\/li><li>Theaters and movie studios became what we know today.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Buildings grew upward and cities grew outward.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Believe it or not, the assassination of President Garfield lit the spark that would later ignite Facebook; and, the seeds of Agile were planted.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How, you ask? Great question!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876. This was the first World\u2019s Fair, a gathering of global dignitaries, inventors and technologies that would launch the technological revolution that we are still in the grip of today. Garfield, a man of philosophy and the sciences, who had only recently published his own original proof of the Pythagorean theorem, brought his family to celebrate the century\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Garfields watched as Alexander Bell spoke the words \u201cTo be or not to be,\u201d into the very first telephone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/alexander-graham-bell-making-telephone-call-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/alexander-graham-bell-making-telephone-call-2.png 614w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/alexander-graham-bell-making-telephone-call-2-300x254.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While this was a stellar example of the kind of innovations present that year, it was what Joseph Lister exhibited that would bear the most consequence: The sterile operating room. Sadly, the myriad medical practitioners on site held Lister in low regard and flatly rejected the presence of germs, the danger they posed and the potential his exhibition presented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this isn\u2019t a story about germs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-s-a-story-about-air-conditioning\"><strong>It\u2019s a story about air conditioning.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Garfield was shot at the end of a very hot and humid Washington, D.C. summer. The temperature was abysmal and the injured president was uncomfortable around the clock. Specialists from the US Navy created a box that was able to lower the temperature of the President\u2019s bedroom twenty degrees. Sounds great, right? The problem was that it took a half a million pounds of ice to cool the room in less than two months. While it addressed the issue, producing and transporting that much ice proved to be a challenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20037158573_347.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1533 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Already at work, Willis Havilland Carrier saw the need for his early prototypes to secure the investment needed to create a cooling system that could provide temperature control and stay eco-friendlier than the US Navy. While his innovation wouldn\u2019t save the President, the pressure of the moment pushed air conditioning closer to what we enjoy today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same way, Lister\u2019s sterile operating room wasn\u2019t in place in time to allow the President to recover (turns out <em>it was germs from the attending physician\u2019s fingers that actually killed him<\/em>), Garfield\u2019s death lit a fire under the medical community to\u2026clean up their act. As the medical community began to experiment with germ free environments, they made a distinct and clear observation: more people lived through their treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 18%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-asset.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1536 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-asset.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-asset-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-asset-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-asset-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>As a side note, Thomas Edison created a small hot plate sized radiation emitting device that allowed surgeons to see where the bullet was in Garfield\u2019s body. It was rudimentary, but it worked; and thus the X-ray was born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of Carrier\u2019s invention exploded. The White House was able to regulate room temperatures, but wasn\u2019t confined to the Oval Office. Wealthy business realized that with air cooling, they could expand their hours of operation, and thus their profits. Shopping, eating indoors, movies at night, all this became something you could do in heat of the day and the warmer evening. You could dress in all the fine clothes you bought year-round, and train of progress didn\u2019t stop there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Builders realized that if you could install ducts to funnel air through a single story, you could add more duct work and cool more stories. Apartments went vertical.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so did high rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-and-this-is-where-the-point-of-all-this-starts-to-take-shape\"><strong>And this is where the point of all this starts to take shape.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the larger urban sprawl, houses were built with tall ceilings and large porches. The tall ceilings gave heat a place to go, keeping the lower room cooler. This was especially effective during formal gatherings. More bodies, more heat; but, this is where business happened. It\u2019s where families joined. It\u2019s where land changed hands. It\u2019s where the details of civic life were tended to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air conditioning changed that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business could move to commercial spaces. Ceilings in new homes got lower and lower.&nbsp;<br><br>Formal space aside, porches were where informal gatherings happened. You didn\u2019t need an appointment or an invitation for a porch. The porch was the social space. It was the chat space. If you had a direct message for someone, you took it to the porch. If you wanted to deliver a letter: porch. It\u2019s hard to imagine in this way, but the porch was a proto-Zoom call. If you were on a porch, it was a hang!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air conditioning changed all that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:19% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1541 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30.png 2048w, https:\/\/theagilehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GoDaddyStudioPage-0-30-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Informal social space could move into the formal space. Porches in new homes got smaller and smaller until\u2026well, do you have a porch?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazing how much change was inspired by the death of one President. That\u2019s the focus of this issue: life comes from death, work from rest, renewal from the end of the road.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-but-this-is-a-story-about-facebook\">But this is a story about Facebook.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As new homes became lower, porches became obsolete and parcels got smaller and sandwiched together, our social spaces disappeared. Think about it. There are a hundred homes in your area. How many people do you just pop by and chat with?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s not just home space. We are busier than ever. We fill our calendars before we take a pen to them. By the early 2000\u2019s, we could buy a house, but what we wanted, what we really longed for was community. If only there was a porch again. If only our homes had a place where we could connect with friends, chat without an appointment, share photos, music, thoughts about movies, ideas, dreams\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the young Mark Zuckerberg didn\u2019t start out to answer the deep longing of the human soul for the social space we lost because of air conditioning, it wouldn\u2019t be long before he was at the top of a social empire built on our lost social connection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook became the new porch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zuckerberg, seemingly overnight, built a porch in nearly every home in the world. With one app and a good internet connection, we were back in business: the business of being human again. We would be remiss to point out at this point that each of the pivotal moments in this story hinged on an individual. Yes, an individual who undoubtedly built on the discovery and invention of another, but an individual, nonetheless.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-but-this-is-a-story-about-change\">But this is a story about change.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a story about adaptation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a story about answer the desire of the human heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a story about Agile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question that this edition of Agile Horizon asks is: <strong>Is it time for Agile to be assassinated? Well\u2026to die?<\/strong><br><br>One of the great things about Agile is the focus on the power of teams. Cross-functional, self-organized, self-managed teams make incredible contributions to the company and customer. Is it working?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is transformation being stifled by group think and upper management? Teams have proven capable of outcomes, but are we missing the power of the individual?&nbsp;<br><br>Perhaps the death of Agile will create room for the rebirth of the individual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to allow the pressures of the current moment to push individuals to grow, to advance, to innovate, to take greater responsibility for themselves. It\u2019s time to raise the ceilings, turn off the AC, rebuild the porch and give the individual the space to focus on themselves, to pursue improvement, to live the Scrum values, nurture integrity, morals, ethics and abilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then bring that back to the team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, Bell, Lister, Edison and Carrier could have saved a President. As individuals, however, they built the future. Isn\u2019t it time for Agile to do the same?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, 1881, soon to be assassin Charles Giteau approached then President James A. 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