“Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.”
Source: Napoleon's memoirs: Memoirs of the history of France during the reign of Napoleon, dictated by the Emperor at Sainte-Helena to the generals who shared his captivity
“If you don’t collect any metrics, you’re flying blind. If you collect and focus on too many, they may be obstructing your field of view.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.”
Source: Maggot Moon
“We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.”
Source: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
“Strong executive commitment is a success factor for implementing Scrum, and management can best demonstrate their support of the transformation through their actions.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. Traditional development and delivery frameworks such as waterfall are often ineffective. In contrast, Scrum is a value-driven agile approach which incorporates adjustments based on regular and repeated customer and stakeholder feedback. And Scrum’s built-in rapid response to change leads to substantial benefits such as fast time-to-market, higher satisfaction, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“The MVP has just those features considered sufficient for it to be of value to customers and allow for it to be shipped or sold to early adopters. Customer feedback will inform future development of the product.”
Source: Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
“By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.”
Source: Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change