Here's a set of intriguing notes by Joey DeVilla from a talk at the FutureRuby conference called "Artisanal Retro-Futurism and Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism," presented by Brian Marick. I hope a video goes up soon -- I'd love to hear this in full.

# First, let's consider what "anarcho-syndicalism" is
# Consider an agile team. The see themselves as alone in a dangerous place, where no one else is offering any help.

   * It would be nice if a "daddy" swooped in and help save them from the mean people
   * The are problems with this approach: it's pathetic, and it often doesn't work

# Here's a story for you to illustrate things:

   * An agile team was made to work in cubicles, like the rest of the company
   * Agile methods aside, cubicles are the "single worst arrangement of humans and objects in space for the purpose of developing software"
   * The team proposed changing their workspace to an open one
   * Furniture Police turned them down