Browse 108 quotes about Agile.
“This need for humans to enhance their capabilities to become AAA is relevant in the context of machines learning faster, with increasingly higher-level human functions.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“It appears evident that, for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.”
Source: Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
“Robert C. Martin’s definition of the Single Responsibility Principle, which states “Gather together those things that change for the same reason, and separate those things that change for different reasons.”
Source: Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
“Fast-changing environments drive new opportunities and gaps. Agility means finding those gaps and exploring them.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“The agile way is more adapt to changes but shall not lose the sight of big picture.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agility within and of itself is a strategy.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Worse yet is the rejection of upfront requirements. The basic observation is correct: requirements will change, and are hard anyway to capture at the beginning. In no way, however, does it imply the dramatic conclusion that upfront requirements are useless! What it does imply is that requirements should be subject to change, like all other artifacts on the software process.
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The agile advice here is irresponsible and serious software projects should ignore it.The sound practice is to start collecting requirements at the beginning, produce a provisional version prior to engaging in design, and treat the requirements as a living product that undergoes constant adaptation throughout the project.”
“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agility should not be translated to sacrificing planning, management guidelines, and quality assurance.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Great ideas don’t die in the market, they die in the shower. People are too scared to pursue them because they appear crazy.”
“Of the top 10 sources of innovation, employees are the only resource that you can control and access that your competitors cannot. Employees are the one asset you have that can actually be a sustainable competitive advantage.”
“There is an absolute need for organizations to innovate, grow, transform, and reinvent themselves faster than ever before.”
“Arming employees with the tools, know-how, and mindset needed to successfully innovate on a continual basis will be paramount to organizational survival.”
“Innovation is a learned organizational capability. You must train people how to innovate and navigate organizational barriers that kill off good ideas before they can be tested.”
“How often have you heard people brag about what great multi-taskers they are? Perhaps you’ve made the same boast yourself. You might even have heard that members of “Gen Y” are natural multi-taskers, having lived their whole lives constantly switching their attention from texting to IMing to Facebooking to watching TV— all supposedly without missing a beat. We even see training classes designed to teach managers how best to multi-task their Gen Y staff, the implication being that asking someone to focus on a single task through to completion has now become ridiculously old-fashioned for, if not downright heretical to, the new world order.
Don’t believe it.”
“The pace and ability at which an organization is able to effectively innovate will be the determining factor of competitiveness in the future. The future is now.”
“Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence.”
“Agile coach: The individual is an agile expert who provides guidance for new agile implementations as well as existing agile teams. The agile coach is experienced in employing agile techniques in different environments and has successfully run diverse agile projects. The individual builds and maintains relationships with everyone involved, coaches individuals, trains groups, and facilitates interactive workshops. The agile coach is typically from outside the organization, and the role may be temporary or permanent.”
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
“Thriving in today’s marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile.”
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
“Frame your problem statements into actionable tasks and goals that lead to a solution. Problem statements incite procrastination and resistance whereas solution statements inspire hope and motivation.”
“The goal of going Agile is to hedge risk by doing incremental-iterative development, increasing overall process efficiency, and the quality of the final output.”
“Just because architecture is supposed to be stable, it does not mean that it should never change.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Complexity is death.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Scrum does not tell you what to do; it helps to show what is going on. An intentionally incomplete framework like Scrum can never answer all your problems. How you enrich Scrum and make it your own is what matters. As you master Scrum, all the talk about Scrum should move to the background.”
Source: Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
“To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.”
Source: Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
“We need to uncover better ways to improve and retrospectives can provide the solution.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs!”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions!”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“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.”
“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.”
“Most literature on the subject of agile methodology... is written from the viewpoint of software developers and programmers, and tends to place its main emphasis on programming techniques and agile project management—testing is usually only mentioned in the guise of unit testing and its associated tools. ...However, unit tests alone are not sufficient and broader-based testing is critical to the success of agile development processes.”
Source: Testing in Scrum: A Guide for Software Quality Assurance in the Agile World
“Scrum дает нужную гибкость, чтобы быстро реагировать на меняющиеся условия рынка и давление со стороны конкурентов или внедрять новые идеи наших команд.”
Source: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
“Слово scrum («схватка») взято из регби и обозначает метод командной игры, позволяющий завладеть мячом и вести его дальше по полю, а для этого нужны слаженность, единство намерений и четкое понимание цели.”
Source: Scrum. Революционный метод управления проектами
“Шартрский собор строился пятьдесят семь лет. Готов поспорить, что перед началом строительства каменщики, глядя в глаза епископу, утверждали: «Двадцать лет — самое долгое. Может, и за пятнадцать справимся».”
Source: Scrum. Революционный метод управления проектами
“Восемьдесят процентов успеха и ценности любой программы заложены в двадцати процентах ее функциональных возможностей.”
Source: Scrum. Революционный метод управления проектами
“The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became”
Source: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
“Let's stop with the 'Taylor made' organisation and let's start 'Tailor made' organizing”
“Being a mum fuels my creativity, grounds my leadership, and sharpens my agility. As a digital entrepreneur, I don’t just lead—I create, nurture, and adapt, just like I do at home.”
“Strategic focus on disruption or exponential leadership, will be constrained by the consciousness, capacity, capability, and commitment, of staff and teams, to EXECUTE effectively with excellence”