“Agile Movies”: Tweets for Fun
Curated by Ellen Gottesdiener
The twitter-verse was recently ablaze with an informal playful contest: rename well-known movies using common agile terms and expressions (see my short list of those terms, below*).
It’s the month of and for April Fools, so join me for some fun.
I’ve assembled the best of the best of “agile movie” – with credit to its originator (and his or her twitter handle). Enjoy!
| Agile Movie Name | Originator | Twitter Handle |
| Back to the Feature | Jim Remsik, Charlotta T | @jremsikjr, @nynelkotten |
| Blazing StartUps | Ellen Gottesdiener | @ellengott |
| Brokebuild Mountain | David J Bland | @davidjbland |
| Citizen Kanban | Josh Seiden | @jseiden |
| Continuous Deliverance | Tom Roden | @TommRoden |
| Dead Story Society | Andre de Kruijf | @Andredekruijf |
| Dial “M” for Muda | Adam Yuret | @AdamYuret |
| Eternal Test Run of the Spotless Mind | Steven Shingler | @sshingler |
| Ferris Bueller’s Intentionally-Planned Slack | J. B. Rainsberger | @jbrains |
| Fried Green Pomodoro | MarkDalgarno | @MarkDalgarno |
| From Here to Iteratively | Brant Cooper | @brantcooper |
| Guess Who’s Coming to the Demo? | J. B. Rainsberger | @jbrains |
| He’s Just Not That Into Estimates | James Holmes | @James_R_Holmes |
| I Know What You Shipped Last Summer | Lasse Koskela | @lassekoskela |
| Kanbannery Row | Mark Connolly | @uxMark |
| Life of PO | Sameer Bendre | @Bendre |
| Lost in Continuous Integration | Mattias Åsvik | @mattiasasvik |
| Mississippi Burndown | Adam Yuret | @AdamYuret |
| No Backlog for Old Men | David Farkas | @dafark8 |
| Return to the Planning of the Apes | Dan North | @tastapod |
| Rosemary’s Backlog | Piotr Tyburski | @tyboer |
| Scrum Runner | Piotr Tyburski | @tyboer |
| Scrumdog Millionaire | Chad Kaufman | @chadkdesign |
| Scrumface | Jeff Gothelf | @jboogie |
| Soylent Lean | Florian Otel | @FlorianOtel |
| Stakeholders On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | J. B. Rainsberger | @jbrains |
| Standup By Me | richquick | @richquick |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kanban | Graham Lee, Jeff Gothelf | @secboffin, @jboogie |
| The Accidental Product Owner | J. B. Rainsberger | @jbrains |
| The Empire Strikes Backlog | Jeff Gothelf | @jboogie |
| The Hobbit: An uneXPected journey | Mogens Villadsen | @ApromacDK |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Whiteboard | Gojko Adzic | @gojkoadzic |
| The NeverEnding Story | Torbjörn Gyllebring, Charlotta T, Kevlin Henney | @drunkcod, @nynelkotten,@KevlinHenney |
| The Nightmare Before Estimates | Mike Long | @mblongii |
| The Post-it Never Sticks Twice | Noel | @noelmarkham |
| The Shawshank Retrospective | David J Bland | @davidjbland |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories | Ellen Gottesdiener | @ellengott |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Planning | Dan North | @tastapod |
| Three Men and a Backlog | Charlotta T | @nynelkotten |
| V for Velocity | puneeta | @puneeta |
*Common Agile Terms and Expressions
| Backlog Burndown Demo Story, User Story Epic Estimate Kanban Lean Scrum PO (product owner) Points |
Pomodoro Iteration Muda, Mura, Muri Release Retrospective Sprint Standup Start Up Velocity XP |
For a full list, search twitter using the hashtag AgileMovies (#AgileMovies).
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