Quotes About Agile

#1. 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

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

Lance Berkman

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

Ben Linders

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

Pearl Zhu

#5. 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

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

Martin Fowler

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

Jeff Sussna

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Jim Highsmith

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

Sandi Metz

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#20. 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

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

Jim Highsmith

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

Salvador Dali

#23. 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

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

Mark Helprin

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

Leo Tolstoy

#26. 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

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

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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

Alistair Cockburn

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Barry Boehm

#32. 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

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

Jim Highsmith

#34. 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

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

Mark C. Layton

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Ben Linders

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

Jim Highsmith

#39. 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

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

Don Yaeger

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

Ellen Meloy

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

Andrew Stellman

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

Baba Kalyani

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

Pearl Zhu

#45. ...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

#46. 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

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

Ben Linders

#48. 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

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

George Vecsey

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Dennis Christopher

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

Orlando Bloom

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

Pearl Zhu

#58. 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

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

Santosh Kalwar

#60. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#62. 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

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

Thiyagarajan Perumal

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

C.J. Holt

#68. 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

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

Paul Gibbons

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

Lisa Kleypas

#71. 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

#72. I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale
why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

David Levithan

#73. At its core, Agile is a mindset.

Pearl Zhu

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

Jim Highsmith

#75. There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Alfred Hitchcock

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

Pearl Zhu

#79. I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

John Katzman

#80. Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

Tyson Chandler

#81. A traditional project manager focuses on following the plan with minimal changes, whereas an agile leader focuses on adapting successfully to inevitable changes.

Jim Highsmith

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

Adam Vardy

#83. The iterative piece of agile can be defined by four key terms: iterative, feature-based, timeboxed, and incremental.

Jim Highsmith

#84. Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do.

Magda Gerber

#85. 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

#86. Photographic data ... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Salvador Dali

#87. A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach.

Lyssa Adkins

#88. Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

Ray Kroc

#89. This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

Steve Ballmer

#90. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

Julia Cameron

#91. He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go, flying towards the finishing post, faster than the disgust limping behind him.

Filippo Bologna

#92. People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.

Andrew Curry

#93. Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.

Sekar Arum

#94. I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

Luke Goss

#95. The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Bruce Feiler

#96. You tripped over my baggage, when it could have been easily navigated by more agile feet.

Fiona Helmsley

#97. Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

Alistair Cockburn

#98. For heavens sake, if you haven't gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

Tim Bray

#99. The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects.

Jim Highsmith

#100. Agile is more a "direction," than an "end," a philosophy and mindset at board level.

Pearl Zhu