Agile's Quotes

#1. Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs!

Ben Linders

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

Jurgen Appelo

#3. I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.

Dennis Christopher

#4. Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.

Pearl Zhu

#5. You're not - " "Fast enough? Strong enough? Agile enough?" She did not necessarily disagree, but she wanted him to have faith she could do this. "Expendable," Sicarius said.

Lindsay Buroker

#6. Half, Not Half-Assed

37 Signals

#7. Handoffs are mostly a result of specialization. Organization design cannot reduce these handoffs, but it can make them faster and cheaper by making them occur inside a single team.

Sriram Narayan

#8. We practice mastering ourselves in the moment so that we can better open ourselves to being a servant leader and to harness our emotions and choose what to do with our reactions.

Lyssa Adkins

#9. We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

Tommy Franks

#10. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

Smedley Butler

#11. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.

Mark Helprin

#12. Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.

George Vecsey

#13. The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

John Millington Synge

#14. Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Orlando Bloom

#15. To be truly agile requires a state of mind, a mindset that informs every decision. An agile state of being takes more than following a few practices.

Belinda Waldock

#16. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#17. Agile is not just a methodology, but a set of principles and philosophy.

Pearl Zhu

#18. We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Baba Kalyani

#19. when agile projects fail, it's often because of cultural and philosophical differences between waterfall and agile methodologies.

Andrew Stellman

#20. The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

Bertrand Meyer

#21. To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

Ellen Meloy

#22. Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

Don Yaeger

#23. Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.

Ben Linders

#24. It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

Greg Gutfeld

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

Jim Highsmith

#26. Great negotiators are able to question the assumptions that the rest of the involved players accept on faith or in arrogance, and thus remain more emotionally open to all possibilities, and more intellectually agile to a fluid situation. Unfortunately,

Chris Voss

#27. Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Dieter Zetsche

#28. Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Nolan Bushnell

#29. The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Philip K. Dick

#30. I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

Todd Park

#31. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.

Adam Vardy

#32. Change is not for its own sake, it's the means to the end, not the end.

Pearl Zhu

#33. I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#34. Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#35. Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems."
- Harry & Poppy

Lisa Kleypas

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

Paul Gibbons

#37. NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.

Anthony Watson

#38. Anyone can plan but it takes someone who is agile to understand that their plan is not concrete.

C.J. Holt

#39. Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working.

Ben Linders

#40. At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

Dawn Angelique

#41. If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#42. The main dysfunctions of agile team are absence of trust, inattention to results, lack of commitment,

Thiyagarajan Perumal

#43. In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

Jim Highsmith

#44. In essence, Agile is a philosophy and a set of principles.

Pearl Zhu

#45. Hugh is now playing a game on his mobile phone. His greasy fat fingers with bitten down nails surprisingly agile on the keys. The concentration on his face is admirable in a way. It was probably with a similar level of concentration that the theory of relativity was formulated.

Glenn Haybittle

#46. The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became

Donald G. Reinertsen

#47. All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world.

Santosh Kalwar

#48. Just yesterday I stood at the window and watched him run across the field like a young deer. He is thin and agile. I think he will be forever young. He cannot be enticed by money or worldly goods; he desires nothing.

Nancy B. Brewer

#49. Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.

Pearl Zhu

#50. There's no way to force someone to be energized. However, you can remove roadblocks.

James Shore

#51. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.

Jim Highsmith

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

Jim Highsmith

#53. Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.

Pearl Zhu

#54. Flowering. Love cannot be held long within categories, likewise the poetry celebrating love. You might say that love loves confusion and not be far wrong. Love is metamorphosis, rapid and radical, agile, full of vigor and levity. Love

Jalaluddin Rumi

#55. The agile way is customer-centric, purpose-driven, capability-based and talent-oriented.

Pearl Zhu

#56. Agile methods don't attempt to describe everything that any development effort might need in thousands of pages of documentation. Instead they describe a minimal set of activities that are needed to create swarm intelligence.

Jim Highsmith

#57. 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

#58. Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#59. Many of the high-return projects are high risk, which is why I suggest you forget the idea of looking at risk at all. Manage the risk by using an incremental or, even better, agile approach to the project. Start with your organization's context of what moves the organization ahead instead of risk.

Anonymous

#60. Agile processes guarantee change and your ability to make these changes depends on your application's design.

Sandi Metz

#61. In an agile project the team takes care of the tasks and the project leader takes care of the team.

Jim Highsmith

#62. Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#63. A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.

Steve Martin

#64. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#65. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.

Jennifer Garvey Berger

#66. A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#67. Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

Barry Boehm

#68. A retrospective's huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.

Luis Goncalves

#69. Agile DevOps Cloud computing Design thinking These practices all share a cybernetic model of control. This

Jeff Sussna

#70. So I hope I've made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

Martin Fowler

#71. Ah, to be young and agile again,' said Primrose.
'We were never that young,' replied Rue.
'More to the point, we were never that agile,' said Prim with a soft smile.

Gail Carriger

#72. Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context.

Pearl Zhu

#73. If the discipline of requirements specification has taught us anything, it is that well-specified requirements are as formal as code and can act as executable tests of that code!

Robert C. Martin

#74. With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions!

Ben Linders

#75. Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!

Lance Berkman

#76. Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#77. Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

Pearl Zhu

#78. team factors for agile project success: the dedicated team and the cross-functional team.

Mark C. Layton

#79. Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.

Luis Goncalves

#80. Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.

Luis Goncalves

#81. As an Agile software development team, we'd been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren't Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code -

Anonymous

#82. Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

Jim Highsmith

#83. You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.

Pearl Zhu

#84. Instead of a central finance function tracking if funds are utilized as per plan, we have outcome owners accountable for realizing value out of pre-approved funds tied to outcomes rather than plans.

Sriram Narayan

#85. A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment.

Robert C. Martin

#86. First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?

David J. Anderson

#87. To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

Bertrand Meyer

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

Barry Boehm

#89. My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

Justin Timberlake

#90. Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.

Leah Busque

#91. The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "I"s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#92. Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

Alistair Cockburn

#93. Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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

Pearl Zhu

#95. We know that power is shifting from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace.

Moises Naim

#96. An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Leo Tolstoy

#97. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

Mark Helprin

#98. It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

Michelle Yeoh

#99. Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

Salvador Dali

#100. The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.

Ben Linders