Stone Three embraces Agile development as a proven, useful and successful methodology for meeting our vision and servicing our partners. It is focussed, furious and very prone to success.

An innovation or product should naturally evolve through it's life-cycle. Requirements and scope will change as one learns from the environment, the market and the product itself.

• Our approach to risk management is central to our processes
• We use the well known Funnel Mechanism for dealing with innovation and direction of ideas
• Our agile process, the engine that drives development, is based on the Scrum Process

Consider these simple truths:

• Nobody knows up-front what the market really wants.
• Therefore, a product cannot be completely specified up-front.
• Time, cost, bells, features, specifications and whistles... cannot be guaranteed
• because knowledge at the start is incomplete and needs to be acquired

A few basic concepts serve to illustrate the overall processes:

• The market is the real customer
• The product's value proposition must be focused on in context
• Planning and review are conducted in close collaboration with the Venture Partners
• Planning is key and updated in cycles with outcomes fed back into the system
• Features tend to stay static during development cycles
• Testing (both technical and economic) is non-negotiable
• Each cycle is designed to test incremental assumptions
• These cycles (sprints) are collaborative, dynamic and controlled