Agility is both about individuals and collaboration: Analogy between agile teams and chess
What can we learn from chess to better our agile management? Here I use analogies from the game to highlight a few important concept that all agile team members should be aware of. For example, the game of chess highlights the difference between the strength of individuals versus the strength of teams, as well as the difference between experience versus talent. I watched a few of the 2013 world chess championship games between Carlsen and Anand. (I am not a chess player, I am just happy to be a good spectator). It was a great fight! Looking back you might say that Anand just made too many mistakes, yet during the match I think that many of us though that Anand had good chance to do much better. While watching those games, I could not help seeing some of the universal principals that can also be found in management. To explain the analogy, I first present the chess concepts, and then map these into a management world. When you learn chess, you learn that pawns are the w...