We Are Naked Volunteers: How an Agile Users Group Rediscovered Itself

Abstract

A splendid way to know if you will succeed at agile in the workplace is to be guided by an agile experience in a volunteer organization, where little is masked. Volunteers became volunteers because, despite jobs, families and sundry other time-consuming responsibilities, they see a unique reward from the donation of their time and efforts. The danger of the workplace is that, rather than keeping the eye on the prize, it is too easy for someone to replace the underlying motivational reward by the paycheck. This report shows how a volunteer organization was able to experience and learn the power of agile values.