Like so many of you other senior agilists out there, I'm currently playing the latest entry in Nintendo's "Fire Emblem" series, Intelligent Systems' "Fire Emblem Awakening" for the 3DS (henceforth "FEA") And I'm sure I'm not the first to notice the wonderful insights FEA provides on Agile software development! But humor me as I spell it out a little bit. Free! Fire Emblem Awakening wallpaper from Nintendo: http://fireemblem.nintendo.com/downloads/ You may not have focused on this aspect of the game when you played it, but the essence of FEA is that the power of the team grows exponentially based on skill with which you, the player, build out the pairing between those characters using the game's new duel system in which you fight cooperatively with nearby comrades . (This would be in addition to the game's "marriage" system, first i ntroduced with the fourth game in the series, Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu,...
Non-zealot reflections on real life agile leadership, management and analysis practices.