The Agile Principles were designed by software engineers for software projects. But might the general principles be useful for other types of projects? In October some friends and I attempted to pit roast a whole pig--something that has a few ways to go right and many ways to go wrong. In fact the most frequent story I heard when trying to get advice from people who had tried it was that we should be ready to order pizza when it didn't work out. You'll have to come to the talk to find out the results, but let's just say that the Agile principles came in very handy along with many other approaches to managing risk that can help make your software projects successful.