The wisdom of Monty Python

  • Posted on: 29 January 2023
  • By: leor

Monty Python gives so much we can use in our transformation strategy!

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony! – Servant Leaders

 

You think you’ve had a hard time? I’ve been chained to the wall for five years, and they only hung me the right way up yesterday! - Retrospectives

 

There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers only put there just the night before, at about eight o’clock. – Backlog Refinement

 

This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. – Agile Training

 

Ah I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account. – Budget cycles

 

We are no longer the Knights who say Ni! We are now the Knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki=mitang-zoom-boing! – New Team Name :-)