Showing posts with label agile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agile. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

agile planning by R.M. Rilke


”I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

From R.M. Rilke's letters to a young poet .

RenĂ© Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. - from Wikipedia

Thursday, April 07, 2011

agile storytelling: salman rushdie



The key words in this nugget from 'controversial' (ie interesting) novelist Salman Rushdie being retell, rethink, deconstruct and change.

'Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.'

And in the context of agile planning...(thanks again @madebymany)

- Collaboration & conversation over strategy decks & documentation
- Seeking simplicity of purpose over 'sacred' consumer insights
- Test hypotheses over long-winded research & deduction
- Respond to change over following a plan

Of course, being agile has to include the possibility of failure.



In the course of eating his own dogfood legend has it that the hapless Salman thought it was a good idea to charge money from his then-wife Padma Lakshmi for proofing one of her screenplays.

Needless to say she very soon arranged for herself to be the ex-Mrs Rushdie.

Them's the breaks. Test and learn...