Birds are very agile.

Well, I ain't lanky, sir, but I'm quick.

He just doesn't seem to think very fast.

And it does it in such a way that it doesn't get bitten itself.

FATHER You're pretty handy. What's your name?

Poor cat! She can't catch the nimble mouse.

Sleek, quick to the helm, everything a boat should be.

You have to be a little crazy to listen to this director.

I think the time is right for an Agile Family Manifesto.

Bob is our banking cousin. A very handy fellow.

To me that is a certified agile miracle.

The most mentally sharp older adults are the ones who show this positivity effect the most.

Bruce Feiler Agile programming for your family

But he has modified a two wheeler so that he can get autonomy and freedom and flexibility.

This speedy copepod totes her beautifully packaged eggs for days.

Really my Lord, my learned friend does more credit to his heart than to his head.

In agile, workers are organized into small groups and do things in very short spans of time.

Today, agile is used in a hundred countries, and it's sweeping into management suites.

So what is Agile, and why can it help with something that seems so different, like families?

So agile is great for stimulating progress, but I kept hearing time and again, you need to preserve the core.

Every other animal is stronger than we are they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed.

And I reached down and picked him up, and immediately became fascinated and impressed by its speed and its strength and agility.

A doctor sits beside him, whose quick steady hand may mend a bone, or stem the life blood's flow.

Its been grueling work but made a full recovery, re learned how to walk and today doing agility drills!

So let's take one problem that families face, crazy mornings, and talk about how agile can help.

My father is at once quick witted, wickedly funny, and then poignancy turns on a dime and leaves you breathless.

Well, I happened to have been very quick that day, and I said, Yeah, but a lot less baloney.

The future of personal robotics is happening today, and it's going to depend on small, agile robots like Romo and the creativity of people like yourselves.

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel )

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel )

The bastard sitting next to you, who is he!

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.

Here shortcuts. I talk about shortcuts.

They turned to a cutting edge program called agile development that was just spreading from manufacturers in Japan to startups in Silicon Valley.

You know, the key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves, and it works in software and it turns out that it works with kids.

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.

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Even the Sutherlands told me that they had an Agile Thanksgiving, where you had one group of people working on the food, one setting the table, and one greeting visitors at the door.

So following the agile model, we ask three questions What worked well in our family this week, what didn't work well, and what will we agree to work on in the week ahead?

Literature makes one sensitive, sensitive to people, to their dreams and to their ideas.

Bruce Feiler has a radical idea To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature Kids pick their own punishments.

Simple, silent and quick. The silent part being the most important.