Sublime

It is entirely possible for us to progress through the sale and secure the engagement without having achieved The Flip at all—in fact, some of us have made a career of this—but as we will see, we will have paid a price.

Following standard agile practice, Grockit’s work proceeded in a series of sprints, or one-month iteration cycles. For each sprint, Farb would prioritize the work to be done that month by writing a series of user stories, a technique taken from agile development. Instead of writing a specification for a new feature that described it in technical