top-20 agile quotes
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TOP 20 QUOTESrelated to agile software development
to celebrate 1000th quote milestone for AgileQuote
Agile Quote provides you with inspirational quotes on Agile software development delivered to you daily.
Quotes are from on-the-ground practitioners and speakers of the Agile community and contain links to resource and how-to-find more information.
Some quotes are not directly connected to agile software development, but somehow related ;-)
October 30, 2013
1st quote posted! July 28, 2016
1000th quote posted!
To celebrate 1000th quote milestone,
we gathered top 20 most popular quotes
to share here.
Full disclaimer: a choice made by our audience, we just sorted by popularity, no editorial filtering.
“A group full of T-shaped people is more flexible about the kind of work they can take on than a group made up of specialists.
-Esther Derby
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow
“ScrumMasters, please don’t touch the task board. It (and the items on it) do not belong to you.
-Michele Sliger
“… the Agile movement in software is part of a larger movement towards more humane and dynamic workplaces in the 21st century.
-Rowan Bunning
“Big egos have little ears.
-Robert Schuller
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
-Larry King
“Listen, really listen to people who disagree with you in order to fight confirmation bias.
-Linda Rising
“Alignment enables Autonomy
-Henrik Kniberg
“it's not a testing problem, it's a design problem manifesting as a testing problem. usually.
-Kent Beck
“If you adopt only one #agile practice, let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow.
-Woody Zuill
“Rather than say “requirements”, say “deciding what to build.” The verb phrase works, the noun phrase doesn’t.
-Alistair Cockburn
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
“My advice is to stop emphasizing the process frameworks and start focusing on the company culture and mindsets.
-Selena Delesie
“Every retrospective should be unique.
-Esther Derby
“Failure really just means that your system is trying to tell you something – so you’d better listen.
-Henrik Kniberg
“When the manager plays the role of ScrumMaster, it’s highly unlikely the Team will ever begin to self-organize.
-Pete Deemer
“If the code isn’t clear, it’s an odor that needs to be removed by refactoring, not by deodorizing the code with a comment.
-Joshua Kerievsky
“Trying to speed project schedule by reducing testing is like trying to lose weight by donating blood.
-Klaus Leopold
“ Software development is not a rational process. It's a process made by people with feelings with bodies and with thinking. And by putting all those together I can be a more effective software developer.
-Kent Beck
“TDD creates consumption awareness: when you create a unit test, you are creating the first consumer of the code under development.
-Neal Ford
