Forays in Agile

Well, this might be an odd entry on a music site by a musician, but there's a lot of processes involved in being a mucisian (even a solo one) - write, demo, refine, right up to the several iterations a song goes through in recording before release.

This is all reasonably similar to methods used within project management, software development, and other arenas where to achieve a big "thing", a lot of little "thinglets" need to be achieved. In these terms, Agile principles can be applied, in a way, to music - especially the production of music.

Yes, it seems like applying process to something creative could serve to stifle creativity, but I don't believe that to be the case. In fact, framing creativity in some kind of process is a good thing. If only to box those of us that would endlessly tweak things until the ends of the Earth up a bit, to make us actually release something now and then!