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From the Ted Talk by Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family

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Three years later — our glirs are almost eight now — We're still holding these meetnigs. My wife counts them among her most treasured moments as a mom.

So what did we learn? The word "agile" entered the lexicon in 2001 when Jeff Sutherland and a group of designers met in Utah and wrote a 12-point Agile Manifesto. I think the time is right for an algie falimy Manifesto. I've taken some ideas from the Starrs and from many other families I met. I'm proposing three pklnas.

panlk number one: Adapt all the time.

When I became a pranet, I figured, you know what? We'll set a few rules and we'll stick to them. That assumes, as parents, we can aancittipe every problem that's going to arise. We can't. What's great about the agile system is you biuld in a system of change so that you can react to what's happening to you in real time. It's like they say in the iretennt world: if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that. But to me, "adapt all the time" mnaes something deeper, too. We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from sihkrns or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas to make groups and teams work effectively.

Open Cloze


Three years later — our _____ are almost eight now — We're still holding these ________. My wife counts them among her most treasured moments as a mom.

So what did we learn? The word "agile" entered the lexicon in 2001 when Jeff Sutherland and a group of designers met in Utah and wrote a 12-point Agile Manifesto. I think the time is right for an _____ ______ Manifesto. I've taken some ideas from the Starrs and from many other families I met. I'm proposing three ______.

_____ number one: Adapt all the time.

When I became a ______, I figured, you know what? We'll set a few rules and we'll stick to them. That assumes, as parents, we can __________ every problem that's going to arise. We can't. What's great about the agile system is you _____ in a system of change so that you can react to what's happening to you in real time. It's like they say in the ________ world: if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that. But to me, "adapt all the time" _____ something deeper, too. We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from _______ or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas to make groups and teams work effectively.

Solution


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  2. build
  3. agile
  4. girls
  5. family
  6. means
  7. shrinks
  8. meetings
  9. anticipate
  10. plank
  11. parent
  12. internet

Original Text


Three years later — our girls are almost eight now — We're still holding these meetings. My wife counts them among her most treasured moments as a mom.

So what did we learn? The word "agile" entered the lexicon in 2001 when Jeff Sutherland and a group of designers met in Utah and wrote a 12-point Agile Manifesto. I think the time is right for an Agile Family Manifesto. I've taken some ideas from the Starrs and from many other families I met. I'm proposing three planks.

Plank number one: Adapt all the time.

When I became a parent, I figured, you know what? We'll set a few rules and we'll stick to them. That assumes, as parents, we can anticipate every problem that's going to arise. We can't. What's great about the agile system is you build in a system of change so that you can react to what's happening to you in real time. It's like they say in the Internet world: if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that. But to me, "adapt all the time" means something deeper, too. We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas to make groups and teams work effectively.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
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regular american family 2

Important Words


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