Quotes About Innovation

Then it hits me. The majority of our marketing projects can't be done without it. High touch marketing requires high tech. But if there's so many of us assigned to these Marketing projects, shouldn't they be coming to us?

we value improvement of our daily work more than daily work itself.

Dan Milstein, one of the principal engineers at Hubspot, writes that he begins all blameless post-mortem meetings by saying, "We're trying to prepare for a future where we're as stupid as we are today." In other words, it is not acceptable to have a countermeasure to merely "be more careful" or "be less stupid"— instead, we must design real countermeasures to prevent these errors from happening again.

I want to bring back the days when a developer could actually create value for someone who cares, easily and quickly," Cranky Dave says. "I want to build and maintain something for the long haul, instead of shipping the 'feature of the day' and dragging all this technical debt around.

we can only win by innovating and understanding our customers, which we can only do by mastering data.

But that's like throwing gasoline on the fire. Developers are even worse than networking people. Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror.

Every industry and company that is not bringing software to the core of their business will be disrupted.

Technology keeps changing faster and faster, and it's nearly impossible to keep up anymore.

Just how many times can you throw out everything you know to keep up with the latest new-fangled trend

The opposite of the Third Ideal is someone who values process compliance and TWWADI," he says with a big smile. "You know, 'The Way We've Always Done It.' It's the huge library of rules and regulations, processes and procedures, approvals and stage gates, with new rules being added all the time to prevent the latest disaster from happening again.

Maxine loves coding and she's awesome at it. But she knows that there's something even more important than code: the systems that enable developers to be productive, so that they can write high-quality code quickly and safely, freeing themselves from all the things that prevent them from solving important business problems.

Without these self-service Operations platforms, the cloud is just Expensive Hosting 2.0.

Mike Rother says that it almost doesn't matter what you improve, as long as you're improving something. Why? Because if you are not improving, entropy guarantees that you are actually getting worse, which ensures that there is no path to zero errors, zero work-related accidents, and zero loss.

In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year,

IT is not just a department. IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.

High touch marketing requires high tech. But if there's so many of us assigned to these Marketing projects,

When r&d capital is locked up as wip for more than a year, not returning cash back to the business, it becomes almost impossible to pay back the business,

We all know we need to change how QA does testing, but the best place to start is by changing how Dev does testing.

Chuck Rossi, Director of Release Engineering at Facebook, described, "All the code supporting every feature we're planning to launch over the next six months has already been deployed onto our production servers. All we need to do is turn it on.

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge.

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

the Fourth Ideal of Psychological Safety. No one will take risks, experiment, or innovate in a culture of fear, where people are afraid to tell the boss bad news,

THE PROBLEM: SOMETHING IN YOUR ORGANIZATION MUST NEED IMPROVEMENT (OR YOU WOULDN'T BE READING THIS BOOK)

If I fail, I'll try to make sure it's in a new and novel way.