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I recently participated in a booksprint (http://www.booksprints.net/). Our end products were infographics, not a book, but I liked the approach and think it makes sense in the new publishing landscape.
In the game industry, there are gameathons, which might have a lot in common with interactive development, but not entirely.
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Given a couple of things about exhibit development, it may not be ideal/appropriate/practical to go fully agile--I'm thinking primarily of the need for an exhibit to be pretty much done at a single end point (agile in software usually means multiple releases of a product, 2.0, 2.1, 3.14 : ))--but I think pulling some valuable things from agile and going much of the way there is possible.
Having said that we're not fully successful at it in curriculum dev., some things are very useful: teams made up of different voices--design, curriculum, tech, admin.; iterative cycles of development instead of long timelines (that end up iterative anyway); pulling the "customer" voice in early and often; frequent check-ins... Many of these practices I do remember from working on exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, even though it wasn't called agile.
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> - Not to disclose too much of my inner geek, the Java Posse folks (podcast) have done several informative podcasts on Agile development process.
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> It's my understanding that if you have several employees who can wholly devote their time to a project for week or two at a time, dropping everything else to be totally immersed in the process, this method can work very well. It isn't necessarily appropriate for managers, etc. who have many things on their plates which need expedited attention – folks who are pulled in many directions most of the time. I like the idea of using this paradigm for exhibition development – provided an organization has the FTE exhibition staff to support the method.
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