Agile Creativity: Agile Principles For Creative People: Steve's Creative Advice, #2
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Agile Creativity is about getting more done creatively – by ensuring creativity is also productivity!
Agile Creativity takes the core ideas behind Agile software development and applies them to creative efforts like art, writing, costuming, and more. If you've used Agile methods, you'll find new ways to think about Agile. If you're not familiar with Agile, you'll get introduced to a new world of more productivity with less stress!
You'll discover:
* How the Manifesto for Agile Software applies to creative activities, and provides a foundation for almost any work.
* Re-interpretations of the Twelve Principles of Agile Software for creative activities, giving you a new perspective on how to get creative work done.
* In-depth examinations of the Twelve Principles, what they mean, and how they can guide you to achieve more with less stress.
It's time to take the powerful ideas behind Agile and take your creativity to the next level!
Steven Savage
Steven Savage is a biologist, natural history writer, lecturer, and an associate member of the Institute of Biology in England. He teaches about ocean biology and has written more than thirty-seven natural history books for children.
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Agile Creativity - Steven Savage
Agile Creativity
Agile Principles For Creative People
(First Edition)
By Steven Savage
Copyright © 2018 by Steven Savage
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Other Books by Steven Savage
Keep Up With The Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Creative Work, Creative Challenges
The Agile Manifesto
Agile Principle #1: Early And Continuous Delivery Of Value
Agile Principle #2: Embracing Change
Agile Principle #3: Frequent Usable Delivery
Agile Principle #4: Daily Contact
Agile Principle #5: Support People
Agile Principle #6: Facetime
Agile Principle #7: Usable Work
Agile Principle #8: Sustainability
Agile Principle #9: Doing It Well
Agile Principle #10: Simplicity
Agile Principle #11: Self-Organization
Agile Principle #12: Review
So, What’s Next?
Recommended Reading
About The Author
Other Books by Steven Savage
Fan To Pro: Leveling Up Your Career Through Your Hobbies
Her Eternal Moonlight: Sailor Moon's Female Fans In North America, An Unauthorized Examination (with Bonnie Walling)
Convention Career Connection
The Way With Worlds Series
Way With Worlds Book 1: Crafting Great Fictional Settings
Way With Worlds Book 2: Details And Discussion
Sex And Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives
Magic, Technology, And Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives
Food, Culture, And Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives
Religion And Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives
Worldbuilding Checkup: 50 Questions For Creatives
The Creativity Series:
Agile Creativity
The Power Of Creative Paths
The Focused Fandom Series
Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, And Careers
Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers
The Career Series
Epic Resume Go!
Quest For Employment
Resume Plus
Skill Portability
Keep Up With The Author
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You can find out more about what I'm doing at www.StevenSavage.com.
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to Carson, Dennis, Charlie, Andy, John, Serdar, Bonnie, Scott, and everyone else for feedback and more.
Thanks to David Allen for starting me down the personal productivity path.
Introduction
This book is about getting more creative work done, more effectively, and with less stress. I’d like to get to the actual advice, but this is also the kind of book that requires an explanation. Some things are easier when you get the why
behind them.
In 2017, I started writing a novel; not remarkable as I’d been writing for decades, but remarkable in that it was my return to fiction after a long absence. I had written books on careers and creativity, but it was time to do something else.
As many of my friends and I were working on creative projects at home and/or at work, I wondered how to do such things better. As I had been trained and had used Agile methods and approaches, I decided to use them on my novel and elsewhere.
Of course at this point you, dear reader, fall into one of two categories. You either know what Agile is or you don’t. If you do, you can skip the next section.
If not, let’s have a quick aside on Agile. Trust me, it’s worth it.
The promised quick aside on Agile
You’ve probably heard of Agile if you have any contact with Project Management, organization, productivity, etc. I like to say Agile is a Philosophy of productivity, embodied in Methods of how to do things.
Its history, in a format condensed enough that Agile professionals like myself won’t argue over it too much, is as follows:
A lot of management and productivity techniques have been top-town – orders, schedules, hierarchy, etc. Build a plan, stick with it, drive from the top.
For the last few decades of the 20th century (and informally throughout human history), people also have known this whole plan-it-then-try-it method doesn't work. They’ve tried to create other ways to be productive.
Software blew the lid off of a need to find new ways to organize. Software turns all the problems in making anything up to eleven: it's fast, it's variable, it's evolving. The efforts to deal with these challenges were called Agile.
In 2001, a whole bunch of Agile people met at a resort to discuss this and produced the Manifesto For Agile Software Development, often called the Agile Manifesto (agilemanifesto.org). They also detailed the 12 Principles behind the manifesto.
This really