Development Team Quotes

#1. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch

#2. 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

#3. As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.

Warren Spector

#4. Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

Steve McConnell

#5. It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.

Andrew Oliver

#6. When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

Mary Barra

#7. We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India.

Narendra Modi

#8. To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don't know.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

Narendra Modi

#10. When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

Cathy Rigby

#11. The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved.

George M. Gilbert

#12. Can you send your team to a unit-testing course for a few days? When they come back, how much extra time do you provide for your team to apply what they've learned in a slower pace of development? Twenty percent more? Not even close.

Roy Osherove

#13. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.

Tony Dovale

#14. Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

Clair Bee

#15. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Denise Moreland

#16. when organizations adopt Agile practices, it is imperative that team leaders and development managers learn a better approach to leading and managing their teams.

Jurgen Appelo

#17. Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews - product, technical, process, team - is also self-correcting.

Jim Highsmith

#18. You can't effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on.

Liz Weber

#19. you give your best for today, you create a greater tomorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset

Tony Dovale

#21. Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results that they get.

Stewart Liff

#22. When I speak of Team India I believe that the foundation for India's development will not be the single pillar of the Central Government, but 30 pillars comprising the Central Government and all our States.

Narendra Modi

#23. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.

Michael Hyatt

#24. If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

Warren Spector

#25. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#26. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#27. In a highly performing team everyone achieves better than he/she would have achieved when working alone.

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself

Tony Dovale

#29. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#30. I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

Les Wexner

#31. It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.

Liz Weber

#33. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code. Bad schedules can be redone, bad requirements can be redefined. Bad team dynamics can be repaired. But bad code rots and ferments, becoming an inexorable weight that drags the team down.

Robert C. Martin

#35. As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team's ability to learn in order to work more "efficiently.

Eric Ries

#36. A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Grady Booch

#38. Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

Lawrence Frank

#39. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.

Tony Dovale