Summary: <p>How is a cellphone like a satellite? Says Tom Friend, Agile consultant at Duke Energy who is blowing our minds with his work at NASA, "If you think about it, a cellphone is a micro satellite [without] stabilization [or] propulsion." Tom walked us through using Scrum and other Agile practices in a satellite mission simulation to create a roadmap and a backlog and to produce a paper prototype of a to-scale small satellite (smallsat), which Friend calls a cubesat. Of the experience, he says, "It creates a shared mental model that everyone can see. It's not what you get out of the paper, it's individuals and interactions."</p><br> <p>Howard Sublett hosts at Southern Fried Agile 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina.</p><br> <p>To receive real-time updates: <br>Podcast library: <a title="http://www.agileamped.com" href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agileamped.com">www.agileamped.com</a> <br>Subscribe to our newsletter: <a title="http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/" href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solutionsiq.com%2Fagile-amped%2F">www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/</a> <br>Connect on Twitter: <a title="http://twitter.com/AgileAmped" href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FAgileAmped">twitter.com/AgileAmped</a><br>Follow us on Facebook: <a title="http://www.facebook.com/agileamped" href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fagileamped">www.facebook.com/agileamped</a></p>
