Agile Management Quotes

#1. The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.

Jim Highsmith

#3. Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

Jim Highsmith

#4. Agility should not be translated to sacrificing planning, management guidelines, and quality assurance.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations,

Barry Boehm

#6. Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.

Jim Highsmith

#7. You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.

Leymah Gbowee

#8. Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

George Vecsey

#9. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

Jurgen Appelo

#10. -Lily - he whispered. - Lily of the Night. How do I say goodbye to you now?
-With happiness, - I whispered, - because we'll see each other soon. And when we do you'll kiss me again.

Mia Sheridan

#11. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.

Paul Gibbons

#12. The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

Jim Highsmith

#13. Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Jim Highsmith

#14. Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Horace