Birds are very agile.

What about our... less agile members?

The interesting thing about the customer development process ties back into agile engineering and agile development hand and glove.

(Laughter) No, agile aerial robots like this one.

To me that is a certified agile miracle.

So following the agile model, we ask three questions

But it could be whatever your favorite process is, and by the way, don't only think that agile engineering and agile development is about software.

The word agile entered the lexicon in 2001 when Jeff Sutherland and a group of designers met in Utah and wrote a 12 point Agile Manifesto.

They weigh thousands of pounds, are not by any means agile.

Quads are extremely agile, but this agility comes at a cost.

I think the time is right for an Agile Family Manifesto.

You need fluidity, you need to be agile and also to adapt really fast.

Today, agile is used in a hundred countries, and it's sweeping into management suites.

'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and swifter than his tongue, His agile arm beats down their fatal points,

In agile, workers are organized into small groups and do things in very short spans of time.

So what is Agile, and why can it help with something that seems so different, like families?

So let's take one problem that families face, crazy mornings, and talk about how agile can help.

So one of the advantages of this design is when you scale things down, the robot naturally becomes agile.

It's about you create a space where you leave Management Inc., maybe where you leave the Agile program (Laughter)

So what this really means is that for process instead of just going to execution first, hiring product managers, doing waterfall development, or maybe even agile nowadays, we're actually going to start with a customer development process coupled with some kind of agile engineering process.

So agile is great for stimulating progress, but I kept hearing time and again, you need to preserve the core.

The other piece that goes with the process in a startup is now in a customer development process but in agile engineering process.

They turned to a cutting edge program called agile development that was just spreading from manufacturers in Japan to startups in Silicon Valley.

People need better communication skills, because I think teams are more agile, and when people come together, you just have to learn to communicate.

The future of personal robotics is happening today, and it's going to depend on small, agile robots like Romo and the creativity of people like yourselves.

You know, the key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves, and it works in software and it turns out that it works with kids.

What's great about the agile system is you build in a system of change so that you can react to what's happening to you in real time.

Up attributes are things like being playful, being fresh like the Fresh Prince, contemporary, adventurous, edgy or daring like Errol Flynn, nimble or agile, profane, domineering, magical or mystical like Gandalf.

And while we certainly want to identify bugs in a product hopefully if we've been using an agile methodology, we kind of squash most of them before they've gone out the door.

Even the Sutherlands told me that they had an Agile Thanksgiving, where you had one group of people working on the food, one setting the table, and one greeting visitors at the door.

So that got him within six days for the management treated us like brothers brought out the archives, and ran agile fingers over the pages till they treed the cats in the middle of May.

One of the disadvantages of doing that is, as you scale things up so if you have lots of robots carrying the same thing, you're essentially increasing the inertia, and therefore you pay a price they're not as agile.