The Agile Manifesto defines the 4 core Values that define "Agile": " Individuals and interactions", " Working software", " Customer collaboration", and " Responding to change" As I applied Agile requirements (user stories), engineering (XP), and process & project management (Scrum & Kanban) to my startups (RideStation, and Agile Entrepreneurs) starting from 2005 to now in 2018, I learned numerous lessons and shared them with my fellow entrepreneurs for the next dozen years. These lessons I have incorporated by "extending" the Agile Manifesto with two additional values pertaining to Product (5th) and Startup/Business (6th) - that the services consultants who wrote it in 2001 probably didn't have to contend with as most (all?) of them were not founders of product startups: "User Validation, Customer Traction, and Business Milestones" Agile Entrepreneurs Manifesto Us
Software IS Magic. Almost literally magic! If you can imagine it, you can make it happen with software. My passion is to explore how to use software to imagine solutions to all problems - and tackle them with software products, one by one. And along the way, build a startup/business, where money is the 2nd Derivative - the solution to a problem is the 1st.