Good and sad analysis Nick and, thanks for mentioning me.

I do believe that we are facing mostly a cultural and experience gap. Cultural in a way that you open the conversation considering every option and not starting limiting it through a collection of codes defined by an obscure hidden board. Agile grow by assimilation and not colonization i.e. rules are becoming simpler the bigger and diverse you become. If you take a look at the origins of the voices in the group, they are mostly from the UK or the Empire. I miss the Middle Eastern, Russian, Asian, African, Latino and Women touch.

Agile is experience-based, not theory-based. Kairos or "what to do at what particular moment in time" is the cornerstone of all agile works. In all my projects, real work always starts after "storming". "Storming" is never negative, it is positive in the process. Avoiding that crucial part tricks the intention and the very nature of transparency. Because we know the necessity of having that stage, we know that we have to prevent getting stuck, that´s the reason why coaches are more needed than consultants.

The vision of that event is to build a Festival, a Scottish Festival that I didn´t know and I guess so does the majority of the agile community. I expected Holi (होली).