E-MailSoftware "Gossip": A Metaphor for Agile
A friend recently told me that while he understands the principles of agile logically, he is unable to explain it to others. So he asked me to come up with a nontechnical/business metaphor to help him better understand what agile really means. After some thinking, I asked if he remembered playing the game of "gossip" around a campfire as a kid. The rules are simple: the first person whispers something into the ear of the next, that person turns to their neighbor and whispers what they heard, the next person does the same, and so on, until the message gets to the last person. Most of the time, the message the last person hears is nothing like what the first person originally said. The intent is to show kids just how damaging gossip can be because it almost always changes the intent and the actual words used from one person to another.
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