Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar

Alice learns to let go of the past, including her old self. She adapts to a new reality.

In this series, we are mapping the narrative of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Agile and Scrum. (go to the first chapter)

This series is a part of Medium’s Mad Hatters Mashup Party. Medium and The Public Domains released Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. All images below are by Sir John Tenniel from the 1865 edition via Wikimedia Commons.

Alice represents someone who is exploring the ‘Agile’ wonderland. I’m mapping the narrative of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to illustrate the complexity of the ‘inner’ transformation of professionals who undergo this journey.

This chapter is about unraveling the ‘spirit’. After all, agility, deep down, is about moving the spirit.

In this chapter, she seeks to grow back to being who she was. Instead, she encounters spiritual beings who guide her towards discovering her new self.

While she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry. An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.

Alice encounters a puppy! For the first time since she’s entered Wonderland, it behaves…