Agile Transformation – Eradicating Poverty – Human Rights

Taking design thinking and agility to the masses #Agile #Transformation #Agility #FreeCodeFridayContest #BeingHuman

Those of you who are new to tales of building Peace Through Prosperity, you may want to get the backstory here, here or from this article on our work in the Cutter Business Technology Journal.

This post is about the why, when and how Peace Through Prosperity decided to evolve it’s foundation program (our mini-MBA / mMBA) so that we could effectively take design thinking and agility to the masses.…

Last month I was at DrupalJam XL for a second consecutive year. Thank you for having me folks! as always visiting .NL is an adventure!

For many years at Cons and Camps my topic has revolved around agile lead social transformation and recalibrating our #GiveBack, and thank you again for giving me numerous opportunities to share my raison d’etre i.e. Peace Through Prosperity.

However this year I…

Back in March 2019 the Peace Through Prosperity team completed their mini-MBA program with 31 female micro-entrepreneurs from Ibrahim Hyderi, Karachi.

In April and May 2019 the team and participants regrouped in workshops exchanging experiences since the classes, application of learnings, sharing successes and crowd sourcing options for challenges they have been facing post intervention.

The team…

Peace Through Prosperity has facilitated 700+ individuals, their families (4550 people) and community (with jobs created) to jumpstart their desired narrative for change. One built by their own hands not through handouts.

Ladies, gentlemen, pirates and Jedis, long over due post on Peace Through Prosperity’s 2018 retrospective! #MyBad

Closing another year was as ever rewarding! eight years on, Peace Through Prosperity has facilitated 700+ individuals, their families (4550 people) and community (with jobs created) to jumpstart their desired narrative for change. One built by their own hands not through handouts.…

Applying Agile principles and values to transform society

A huge thank you to organisers and delegates at Drupal Camp Belgium for having me over and for the privilege of their platform to advocate for Peace Through Prosperity.

This was my fourth session at a camp in Belgium over the years! the message remains the same and the audience just as receptive. #Thankyou

Was brilliant catching up with old friends! Wouter, Nicky and Fred you were missed!

Agile and peace building at Microsoft future decoded

A huge thank you to Microsoft for providing their stage at future decoded 2018 to create awareness for Peace Through Prosperity: An innovation lab for low cost, immediate impact social transformation programs that once validated are open sourced for others to use in alleviating poverty and improving livelihood security.

For the past eight years we have been cross pollinating what we know about…

Building borderless entrepreneurial ecosystem – Peace Through Prosperity and 9others – road to Yemen!

At Peace Through Prosperity we know firsthand the impact people-to-people support networks bring, having a trusted network is something no entrepreneur should be without.

With 9others we have been delivering these for micro-entrepreneurs in marginalised communities since 2014. Combined with our mini-MBA and coaching programmes for micro-entrepreneurs this additional level of support has become an…

Product Owners… Servant leaders! our first line of defence.

The Scrum advocates our Scrum Master’s are the shield for the team, I have lived with that for many years… But for the past few I’ve been advocating a slightly different approach.

Sure Scrum Masters are the shield, however if it comes to that our problems have already come too close! The Uruk-hai are already at the Gates of Hornburg! We need them dealt with further upstream!

The defence of the…

Being human, taking Open Source, Agile and Cloud beyond tech! at Drupal Europe

Privileged to be given the opportunity by organisers at Drupal Europe to share Peace Through Prosperity‘s journey with the Drupal community. Thank you!

This was the third rendition of this talk since 2015, and in this time our charity, our work, progress of our beneficiaries and our learnings from it have come a long way.

What started as a one way street for transfer of frameworks, tools and…

Re-calibrating Giveback – Taking Open Source and Cloud beyond tech #SocialTransformation

This is the second rendition of this topic within the Drupal Community, the first time I shared my experiences and journey in this context was at Drupal Camp Sofia, in Bulgaria in 2015. In many respects this is quite a circle for me, I have fond memories of attending a Drupal meet-up in Utrecht (long way from home in Kent!) in 2012, receiving a very warm welcome by the local community at…

Blockchains, Distributed Ledger Technology, Cryptocurrencies – starter pack

I have been dipping in and out of Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Cryptocurrencies for a while, but deep dived only recently.

Any how I’ve found a bunch of resources very informative (and readable) so far, and in the spirit of open source, putting it out there, may help others get to signals sooner and if you have your own finds to share, all the better. It’s a starter pack introducing…

Protected: Pause, reflect – Peace Through Prosperity- 2017 a retrospective – inspect, adapt, expand. #SocialTransformation #Agile

Third Cohort of women entrepreneurs partaking in Peace Through Prosperity’s mini-MBA program. Some stats from 2017 to get your attention

304 beneficiaries from 11 marginalised communities in Karachi completed Peace Through Prosperity’s mini-MBA program and underwent seven months of coaching and consulting.

7 month engagement in 11 marginalised areas of Karachi, Pakistan

304 male beneficiaries

5…

Stopping an Un-Islamic State – an alternative approach to our security revisited in 2017

Our security and emergency response services are amazing with their response times at and followup after the fact, our intelligence services on top of their game on pre-emptive measures. However what are our politicians doing to address the current and ineffective approach to counter the spread of extremism? both at home and abroad? Theresa May wants to censure the world wide web! that is not…

Agile for Entrepreneurs – as delivered at Google Campus London

A short talk delivered at Google Campus London on the 3rd of April. It probably does not make much sense without the commentary but since attendees wanted access to it, here it is!

Agile Entrepreneurs – Google Campus London 3rd April 2017 from Kubair Shirazee ……………..

Lastly, If you got value from what I have shared please consider giving back by contributing to @BringPTP, you can follow,…

Agile in non-tech environments – Empathy mapping with Joe public in Ibrahim Hyderi, Karachi

Building on from my previous post on empathy maps it seems apt to share a real world example of how a non-technical team utilises empathy maps. To build deep understanding of the target audience’s issues and to address their pains. For those not familiar with Peace Through Prosperity, the organisation works with people engaged in micro-enterprises; such as street-cart or pavement based green…

Agile Coaching: A guide for project managers stepping into a Scrum team – Health warnings!

This is first of a series of blogs to support traditional project managers I am coaching. To help get their bearings in deep and murky waters of a Agile projects and Scrum teams.

Before the scrum purists amongst you vehemently shake your heads or berate me on the title, consider being pragmatic. In the Professional Services world there is always a project manager to manage complexity and…