The Turk was a chess-playing machine invented in eighteenth century. It was a hoax, a box that contained a person who would move the chess pieces. After reading about the Mechanical Turk, I was thinking that perhaps Agile could benefit from this concept…then I found that such a solution already exists.

I just read a story about how Virgin Superstores will be closing their store in Times Square NY. The store was profitable, but Virgin could make more money using the space for something else.

Joe the Developer waltzed into work one sunny Tuesday morning and was approached by Kenny the Project Manager, who asked if the feature Joe was working on was done.

Do you know what WIP is? No? You must have fallen asleep in business school! Work in Process, also known as WIP inventory, is all the work and products created on the path to making something of value that is to be sold.