I saw a posting regarding the Heroes tv show, which I used to watch.How awesome...they, too, use Agile! Tim Kring is the creator.http://www.avclub.com/articles/tim-kring,37975/AVC: If everyone’s focused on their own storyline, how is it possible to keep track of the bigger picture of the season?TK: What we do is break the stories one at a time, then we work in what’s called sprintsâ€"a sprint is, like, four episodes.AVC: Funny you call it a sprint, since Sprint is this huge show sponsor.TK: Well actually, it comes from “agile methodology,” whichcame out of game design. We use some of the same ideas, like usingiteration and mistakes to help you along the way. You never really knowwhere you’re goingâ€"you’re only seeing as far as your headlights all thetime, so you can keep readjusting. On a TV show, there are huge issuesthat come up that a lot of people don’t realize. Locations fallthrough, actors aren’t available, suddenly actors don’t have chemistryand you’ve banked an entire season of love story around them, etc. Youhave to be really agile. If you don’t have an actor under contract andthey get a movie, you no longer have George Takei to work with.