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Nyari Samushonga@nyarisam
pivoting… without pain is impossible
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▸ 0,70 Gini coefficient (highest measured inequality in the world)
▸ 33% unemployment (54% youth unemployment)
▸ ZAR 3 650 average wage of a low skilled worker
▸ ZAR 26 400 estimated living wage for a family
State of employment in South Africa
“We can’t talk about economics without talking about the means of production - this is about employment and the right to a living wage”
Source: Statistics SA
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Until we realise:
▸ dignity before wealth
▸ sufficiency before excess
Because we have not yet effected transformation
We should remain uncomfortable...
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Partner with organisations that...
▸ gather and analyse data on the current state of labour in SA
▸ lobby for a living wage for low skilled workers
▸ increase awareness of the material conditions of the working class
Our discomfort compelled us to ...
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Impactful change demands agitation
be precise
Current State Agitation Future State
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Murapazvose...agile heals everything
Exception Reports
Status & Trend Reports
Standardise System Input
ValidationsIntuitive UIUser training
employersemployees collection
statistics
waste
Inaccurate data
usage
slow
Backlog, MVP, Release Plan
CD, CI, TDD, continuous refactoring
Standups, Showcases, Retros, etc
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▸ From developers, to product owners to execs...we all converged on a definition of “value”
▸ We understood the complexity in the domain
▸ We recognised points of failure and points of waste between teams and the system of processes
▸ We adopted strong agile engineering practices - CD, TDD, Agile UX...
Life was agile good...
We had set the project up right, our rituals were on fleek and we were ready to conquer Kilimanjaro….
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We thought we knew...
▸ What was value
▸ The complexity in the domain
▸ The points of failure and points of waste between teams and the system of process
For all the great agile practices...we were building the wrong software
And then...
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Pivot #1
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What is unemployment about? Efficiency is meaningless if you are
collecting the wrong data.
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Focus on Employers
Focus on Employees
… then you get some view of
income in relation to profit
… then you get some view of income in relation to place of work and movement of people
The disruption is significant The prioritisation of the backlog changes!The design is questionable!
A predicament of
understanding
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! Focus on employer datapivot
This is nothing but a choice - a big bet.
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Pivot #2
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Collect data fast or collect lots of data in the shortest possible time
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Put effort into
employer compliance
Put effort into catering for variable data formats
… effort into negotiation
… effort into complex software data transformation
The disruption is about locus of control We can control what software we build!We can’t control the outcome of a negotiation!
A predicament
of control
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! Build complex softwarepivot
The hard choices are often the right choices
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Pivot #3
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Design a new solution for
an unfamiliar domain
Complex domains need simple designs
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Apply a well known design from another domain
… ignore the abstractions
and design for implementation
… simplify with a well known higher level abstraction
The disruption is about simple solutionsDesign is a journey to realise simplicity!
A predicament of complexity
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! Leverage accounting principlespivot
Sometimes new question have old answers
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Pivoting is painfulbut absolutely necessary!
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If there isn’t a new context after you pivot, then you didn’t pivot!
Every pivot creates a new context
!pivot
The new context must be socialised
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My observation is that we ...
1pivot
Pivot to gain deep understanding
2pivot
Pivot to gain control
3pivot
Pivot to simplify
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Pivoting is Leadership
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Leadership is about making decisionsPivoting is about making decisions
* All decisions are correct
* All decisions are lonely
* Making decisions instills humility
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Having done all you can do to stand
Nyari Samushonga@nyarisam
STAND