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How NPR benefits from agile project development & you can too

www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/175487/how-npr-benefits-from-agile-project-development-you-can-too

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But what Ive found working in NPRs Digital Media department has been a surprisingly rigorous, disciplined approach to product development. Not only have we not done away with meetings, we actually have regularly scheduled meetings to discuss the meetings. And it works. Agile development, along with a flexible approach to serving content, is what allowed us to launch an iPad app and a tablet-optimized HTML5 site the day the iPad was released, for example.