1. Abolish the Management!
Piotr Żołnierek
President @ anixe
@pzol
pz@anixe.pl

2. The Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club
• 25+ countries
• 200+ chapters
• thousands members worldwide
• incorporated as non-profit
organization

3. when we do right nobody remembers
when we do wrong nobody forgets
one percenters

4. History of the Hells Angels

5. What are you rebelling against,
Johnny?
Whadda you got?
Marlon Brando - The Wild One

6. brotherhood
What holds them loyalty
together? one-for-all, all-for-one

7. What holds them
love of freedom
together?

8. Organizational
Structure
• President
• Vice-President
• Sergeant at Arms
• Road Captain
• Treasurer - Secretary

9. hangaround
How do you become a prospect
member of an MC? member

10. Select Rules of a Motorcycle Club
• 1. There's a $2 fine if you miss a meeting • 6. Members cannot belong to any other
without a decent excuse clubs
• 2. No fighting among club members, a fine • 7. Anyone who loses their patch or has it
of $5 from both parties if caught picked up by an office must pay $15 before
being able to have it back
• 3. New members have to be voted in, if
there are two 'no' votes then the application • 8. No messing with another member's wife
is rejected
• 9. No rape
• 4. All new members must have their own
motorbike
• 10. No heroin
• 5. No stealing among members
• 11. No burns

11. What does that have to
do with Agile?

12. - Management by participation
- Democracy
ANARCHY! - Empowerment
- Self-organization
- Self-sufficiency

13. agile at anixe
• agile for 5 years
• 50 people
• 8 teams (6 dev, 1 support, 1
sysadmin)
• software for travel and tourism

14. Recruitment and
member retention
• hire for attitude and team fit
• fire and hire by team vote
• newly hired people become
prospect for 3-12 months
• loosing members is leaking
knowledge

15. daily
weekly
Church monthly
best ad-hoc

16. every member
is a scrum master
Teamwork talks to the customer
organizes demos...

17. MOAR! Watch the Sons of Anarchy tv show

18. Sonny Barger
Hells Angels vs Sons of Anarchy

19. Bottomline
• get the right people
• don’t demotivate them
• talk & vote everything
• people do take the right
decisions, they just need a
vision
• and yes… top management is
scared of letting go of their
power

20. Please leave me some feedback!
Piotr Żołnierek
http://www.slideshare.net/pzol
@pzol
pz@anixe.pl