Innovation & Knowledge Sharing
Agile is not just about building right, but about discovering what's worth building. These laws describe how ideas spread, knowledge is created, and innovation emerges in complex environments. By using these principles, teams increase transparency, reduce duplication, and create the conditions where better ideas take root and grow.
| Concept | Agile Relevance | Usage in Agile |
|---|---|---|
| Sturgeon's Law | "90% of everything is crap." | Encourages backlog refinement, prioritization, and focusing on high-value features while filtering out low-impact ideas in Agile roadmaps. |
| Linus's Law | "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." | Reinforces peer reviews, open-source collaboration, pair programming, and continuous testing in Agile teams. |
| Clarke's Three Laws | Principles that drive technological innovation and future-thinking. | 1. "If a senior scientist says something is possible, they are likely right; if they say something is impossible, they are likely wrong." → Encourages innovation, challenging assumptions, and pushing Agile teams to think beyond existing constraints.
2. "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible." → Supports Agile experimentation, moonshot thinking, and rapid prototyping. 3. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." → Encourages Agile teams to embrace emerging technologies (AI, blockchain, quantum computing) and continuous learning. |