Sprint As Process http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=401
by Helen Varley Jamieson Helen Varley Jamieson's account of working collaboratively in Madrid at the Eclectic Tech Carnival. On a 'sprint', with five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website, physically & remotely. In the last week of June I went to Madrid for the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) website workweek - the collective effort of five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website. This is sprint methodology, a concept that I first met in Agile software development, but one that is being increasingly applied as a successful creative collaboration methodology. During the workweek I blogged about the process and this article is an assemblage of the blog posts. Thinking about the concept of the sprint, I realised that over the years, I've participated in a number of theatrical "sprints" although we didn't call them that. In fact it could be argued that the normal development process for theatre productions in New Zealand is the sprint - a three or four week turnaround of devising/rehearsing/presenting. Except that it doesn't usually continue the Agile process after the first sprint - evaluation, refinement then the next sprint and iteration - and as a result, the work is often undercooked. But theatre projects that better fit the sprint analogy are some of the workshop-performance processes that I've participated in at theatre festivals, where a small group comes together for a few days to create a performance, then some time later meets again in another situation, perhaps a slightly different configuration of people, for another sprint. Each sprint generates a stand-alone performance or work-in-process showing, as well as contributes to a larger evolving body of work that forms the whole collaborative project. Two such projects that I've been part of are Water[war]s and Women With Big Eyes (with the Magdalena Project). ————> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on identi.ca & Twitter http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
