Here at Cheetah Learning, excitement and energy abound because we’ve wrapped up the development efforts for our new program, The Happy Aging Project. With a 10-hour online class followed by a two-day yoga retreat, this program is unlike anything we’ve offered before.

Our next step is to channel the team’s energy into implementing our Cheetah Sales and Marketing Accelerator System. Because there is a yoga component, what better way to organize our marketing efforts than with an Agile project management approach?

Think about it: Yoga is really all about agility. It should be no surprise that Agile principles and practices share much in common with those of yoga. Both require the ability to adapt to change, focus intently on one task at a time, and settle into a comfortable, sustainable pace to prevent burnout. And in yoga, as in Agile, users gain incremental benefits throughout the duration of their practice.

Let’s talk about a few building blocks of Agile that are essential to putting the Happy Aging Project marketing plan into action: stories, estimating, and points.

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