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Quotes About Delivery

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects.
~ Jim Highsmith
Traditional waterfall methods deliver value at the end of the project, often months or years after the project begins. Agile projects can deliver value quickly and incrementally during the life of the project. Capturing value early and often can significantly improve a project's return on investment, and utilizing iterative, feature-based delivery is the cornerstone practice in making that happen.
~ Jim Highsmith
Driving exploration is critical, but knowing when to stop is also. Product development is exploring with a purpose, delivering value within a set of constraints. Frequent, timeboxed iterations compel the development and product teams and executives to make difficult tradeoff decisions early and often during the project. Feature delivery contributes to realistic evaluations because product managers can look at tangible, verifiable results.
~ Jim Highsmith
The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.
~ Jim Highsmith
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
~ Jim Ryun
We cannot build a vital economy by delivering pizzas to one another.
~ Jim Wright
You probably wouldn't remember, but that night you had Noah?" he said. "You hunkered down on the side of the road and held my shoulders while you pushed him out.
~ Joanna Wylde
Sam," Meg said sternly. "I have deliveries to make before we can play. You have to wait for me at home." He talked back, and she didn't need to speak Wolf to know he wanted to come with her and wasn't agreeing with anything she said about him staying home by himself.
~ Anne Bishop
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
~ Anonymous
When you get these franchises with some built in profiles and anticipation... I think the anticipation and the buildup can can exceed the delivery.
~ Kevin Reilly
While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.
~ Gordon Brown
A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism.
~ Marc Koska
To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.
~ Keshia Knight Pulliam
Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~ Merv Griffin
So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.
~ Ruth Ann Minner
If you're going to ask people to pay a premium price, you have to deliver a premium product. Not enough 3D movies have delivered on that promise. People got tired of it, and that's why they started to turn their back on 3D.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
For large companies, they are looking at 2020 as the decade of delivery on the promise of digital and technology.
~ Julie Sweet
We promised the Accountability Act, we delivered the Accountability Act.
~ Pierre Poilievre
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
A brand should live up to the expectations of people; it should deliver what it promises.
~ Radhika Apte
There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.
~ Peter Agre
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
~ Alan Alda