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Legos as a Metaphor for Design

Introduction My organization wanted to help employees understand the value of the IDesign Method(both the System Design, aka architecture, and the Project Design). To that end we ran a team-building exercise involving Legos. We broke into small groups (3-4 people each) and assigned each group a Lego kit. The twist: no instructions, not even the box. …

Doing Agile vs. Being Agile

How many of you software geeks have been through a corporate Agile transformation? Did it at first seem as though everything was going to get dramatically better? As though you’d be unleashed to really do your work, and that no longer would useless processes hold you back? How did it turn out? Did the organization …