Agile Quote

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

In our modern world, the most important work we do is cognitive; so, it’s not surprising that a structure developed for physical work isn’t optimal for intellectual work.

If you approach and engage people with respect and empathy, the seemingly impossible can become real.

The word 'story' in #agile teams has become superfluous, as these artefacts have become a means to capture technical information as documentation rather than making a connection between the character and the reader.

Never let an "agile" framework, method or tool prevent you from experimenting. "We are discovering better ways...", the opening line of the Agile Manifesto, requires active experimentation.

Story maps can be used at any point in the product-development process to drive discussion and align the team. You can create a story map to plot the experience for a new product, after initial discovery work, or for an existing product, after usability testing.

We only use feedback when this is the most cost-effective way to achieve our goal. Using feedback is a technical choice, it is not "required" to deal with variation.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over.

At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.

you'll either be figuring out how to undesign structural inequities in your organization or losing to someone who is

But to be at all successful with Scrum you really need a growth mindset in place, a willingness to learn and change and a culture of trust and openness.

…in order to help customers, we need to help employees, and if we align employee fulfilment and corporate destiny, we will all thrive together.

I've observed a lot of daily standup type meetings. Most of them should have gone like this: "Do we intend to work together on a common goal" "We work independently and prefer it that way" "Ok, meeting adjourned."

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

Understand your market overestimates their current solution just as much as you overestimate the quality of your product. This means products with only marginal improvements don’t break through. The lead will only change hands when a 10X product arrives.

Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.