System Agility

Post-It Wars Day 2: Who Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea?

Yesterday I wrote about how I discovered the fascinating world of Post-It Wars. Today I enlisted some willing and enthusiastic program managers and an engineer and we made this:

He looks like this from outside the building:

The owner of this office had left early for a long weekend break. He’ll be back on Tuesday 🙂

We got the inspiration for these ones from this Web site. I think the next challenge is to start creating some new designs. This one in Paris, for example, sets a pretty high bar:

What does this have to do with software development?

It’s amazing what a group of intrinsically motivated people can do when they get together, find a sense of purpose and are given the opportunity to unleash their creativity and talent. Maybe there’s a lesson there for how we build products?

ALE2011, here we come!

There’s been a great uptake today of people interested and willing to play in Berlin next week at the ALE2011 Conference. It’s going to be fun!