{"id":944,"date":"2011-04-27T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masteringtheobvious.wordpress.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:59:42","slug":"because-agile-teams-burn-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/because-agile-teams-burn-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2026because Agile teams burn HOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mishkin Berteig made a great point last week about how <a title=\"The Agile Planning Onion is Wrong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agileadvice.com\/2011\/04\/24\/agilemanagement\/the-agile-planning-onion-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Agile Planning Onion is Wrong<\/a>.\u00a0 Mishkin notes that \u201cculture both surrounds the planning onion and cuts right through it\u201d . \u00a0He goes on to suggest that we update the metaphor to at least allude to the double-loop of learning in order to foster a more conscious approach to applying learning and planning to the organizational culture as well as the product.\u00a0 And then he asked for some help with creating a new diagram\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Serendipitously, Mishkin\u2019s post came shortly after I attended Luke Hohmann\u2019s keynote on <a href=\"http:\/\/agilegames2011.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=131:get-three-chapters-from-luke-hohmanns-book-qinnovation-gamesq&amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;Itemid=93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Games at Agile Games 2011<\/a>, during which he proclaimed that the Planning Onion ought to be replaced by the Planning Flame \u201cbecause Agile Teams Burn HOT!\u201d.\u00a0 Having some pyromaniacal tendencies myself, my interest was sparked by the idea of the Planning Flame. \u00a0I like how it conveys a sense of creating energy and shedding light on things rather than just growing quietly in the dirt.\u00a0 If you extend this notion to incorporate the idea of culture as the medium in which all of this combustion happens \u2014 or where things can fizzle out if the atmosphere doesn\u2019t contain the right mix of environmental attributes to support the flame \u2014 you might end up with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/masteringtheobvious.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/theagileflame2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" title=\"TheAgileFlame!\" src=\"http:\/\/masteringtheobvious.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/theagileflame2.jpg?w=590&amp;h=442\" alt=\"Quickly done in Google Draw, but it gets the point across\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mishkin also commented that the flame metaphor supports the idea of change; 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