Agile Meetup After Thoughts -- Distribute Human Group

I went to the agile meetup today. I like how the agile meetup runs:

• Break 2 hours’ time down to 4 sections, each section is 0.5h long.
• At each section, there’re 4 groups: A B C D
• Anyone can initiate any idea, to host a discussion in one group, at one section.
• Any topic is good
• What happened is what should happen
• Anyone is free to join any section; anyone can quit any section at any time

This is totally self-organizing, which in a sense means, agile. The each of the person can be viewed as a computer in a big distributed system; there’s only rules to follow, no decision-maker.

Thinking this way of self-organizing can be potentially extended to other activities, with several basis:

• There’re rules to define the basic flow
• The rule should encourage positive behaviour, and discourage the negative ones.
• The rule should treat everyone equally
• The rule should give everyone equal-opportunity to contribute
• No one has more right than the other.