FAQ - Why do we use the flight analogy for our projects?

From a high-altitude view, we visualize our projects as flights. Each flight is time boxed, has one or more teams (crew) working together when inflight, completes a journey, and delivers a solution idea (epic) when landing.

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Flights are a well-understood metaphor!

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With the “flight” metaphor we can visualize projects as …

Structured

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Landing

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Landed

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Nimble

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Specialized

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State of the art

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Hefty

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Maintenance

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Retired

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… in short, it is a well understood, visual and fun metaphor Smile