Saturday Night Live has delivered iconic, award-winning content and thrilled its audience for more than four decades. The practices used to deliver this sketch comedy television show every week actually have quite a bit in common with the practices of agile businesses. It's all about continuously, reliably delivering value.
John Krewson is the founder and President of Sketch Development Services, a software development studio that provides agile and DevOps coaching, counseling and training. Sketch delivers software for its customers using agile principles and practices, which serves as a catalyst to their agile transformations. John has been an active member of the agile community since 2003 as a developer, ScrumMaster, development leader, product leader, and coach. He has worked with dozens of companies from startups to the Fortune 50 to help them learn, adopt, and apply agile, scrum, and Lean/Kanban principles and practices. John has been a software development leader for fifteen years; an actor and director for over twenty, having appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1997. Follow John's blog on the Sketch website at sketchdev.io, or on Twitter at @johnkrewson.