Favorite Quotes from Agile 2006

“Always
check code in better than you checked it out.” — Robert Martin

 

“Anything
you can do to drive down feature sets will often result in something considered to
be an ‘innovative’ product.” – Mary Poppendieck

 

“Anytime
anything joins a queue, that is waste.”  — Mary
Poppendieck

 

“Don’t
start any sentence with “Yes, but…” ’Buts’ are ugly;
‘ands’ are beautiful” —
Herbert Smits

 

“Everybody
is doing Agile just a little different.  Nobody
is doing it the same but it is working.”

 

“Fitness
is not a test tool, but a requirement defining tool.” —
Michael Bolton

 

“Only
after American car makers had exhausted every other explanation for Toyota’s
success were they able to admit that their real advantage was its ability to harness
the intellect of ‘ordinary’ employees.” –Gary
Hamel in Management Innovation

 

“People
don’t know what they want until they see it” –
Christopher Avery

 

“People
don’t really believe Agile will work until they internalize the principals.”
— Overheard over drinks. 

 

“The
worst projects you were on were named after star trek characters or constellations
because they were initiated and defined by geeks, not the real customers.” –
Mike Cohn

 

“There
is a narcotic effect of green in Fitness.” — Michael Bolton

 

“They
aren’t Requirements, they are Desirements.” –
Dan Hawthorne