The Oath of Non-Allegiance

I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider ideas across schools and heritages in order to find the ones that best suit the current situation. (See http://alistair.cockburn.us)

私は、現在の状況に一番適したアイディアを探すために、どんなアイディアもその発信元によって排除することなく、流派や派閥(schools and heritages)を超えて議論することを約束する。

Eu prometo não desconsiderar nenhuma ideia baseada em sua origem, mas considerar ideias vindas de todas as escolas e tradições com o objetivo de encontrar aquelas que melhor se encaixem em cada situação.

אני מבטיח לא לדחות אף רעיון על פי מקורו, אלא לבחון רעיונות לרוחב סקלות ומורשות שונות על מנת למצוא את אלו המתאימים ביותר למצב הנוכחי

Je promet de n’exclure aucune idée sur la base de sa source mais de donner toute la considération nécessaire aux idées de toutes les écoles ou lignes de pensées afin de trouver celle qui est la mieux adaptée à une situation donnée.

Ich verspreche, eine Idee nie nur aufgrund Ihrer Herkunft zu verwerfen, sondern Ideen aus jeder Denkschule und Kultur in Erwägung zu ziehen, um die beste Lösung für die aktuelle Situation zu finden.

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I’m tired of people from one school of thought dissing ideas from some other school of thought. I hunger for people who don’t care where the ideas come from, just what they mean and what they produce. So I came up with that “Oath of Non-Allegiance”.

This means the end of statements like “That’s no good – it’s not agile object-oriented pure etc…”, but rather a discussion about whether idea (agile plan-driven impure whatever) works well in the conditions of the moment.

I’ll be the first to sign.
Alistair

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Thanks to Kenji Hiranabe for the Japanese translation)
Thanks to Fabrício Vargas Matos for the Portugese translation)
Thanks to David Elrom for the Hebrew translation (sorry about maybe not getting the alignment right))

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Join others in putting this badge on your blog/site/slides/hat so others will recognize you. Here is some HTML code to show the logo and link to this page (leaving out the leading ’<’ on each line so the HTML code shows): a href=”http://alistair.cockburn.us/Oath+of+Non-Allegiance”>

img src=”http://alistair.cockburn.us/get/3037” align=”right”>

/a>

The several versions of the image are at

* I signed the oath of non-allegiance.png : (the image on this page)
* I signed the oath of non-allegiance 300dpi.png : (1.5 in high at 300dpi)
* Oath of Non-Allegiance logo.png : (just the butterfly)

I created a Cafe Press shop just for these: http://www.cafepress.com/nonallegiance.
(If those prices seem high (which they do to me), those are just the Cafe Press prices, I’m selling them at cost with no markup.)

Jesse Fewell just wrote a nice little blog post about this at:
http://www.jessefewell.com/2010/06/13/agile-co-founder-issues-a-call-to-action-stop-bickering/

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