Quotes About Agile Development

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. There we were, two little spots of light growing together, inseparable.

Kiera Cass

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

Barry Boehm

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

Bertrand Meyer

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Half, Not Half-Assed

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#9. Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Imran Khan

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

James Shore

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

Donald G. Reinertsen

#12. I feel like those people who say they can bungee jump, but when they're actually standing on the bridge, the reality of the situation hits them in the face." "Yeah, never bungee jump. Reality isn't the only thing that hits you in the face.

Darynda Jones

#13. 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

#14. I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

Muhammad Ali

#15. It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!

Wladyslaw Szpilman