Quotes About Agile

Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems." - Harry & Poppy

[Agile aerial] robots like this have many applications. You can send them inside buildings as first responders to look for intruders, maybe look for biochemical leaks … [or they] can be used for transporting cargo.

I was always athletic and I could do a lot of things.

I've always been athletic and fast.

I feel like I'm a very athletic back, and I'm capable of doing more than one thing.

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I was pretty wild when they drafted me. I was more of a flop-around-stop-it-any-way-you-can kind of goaltender.

Cats can run fast,

Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.

That cat is like a two-year-old with four-wheel drive.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

In almost all cases, I'm opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.

we shouldn't add features until they are needed. Forget just in case; develop just in time.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

premature design commitment is a design failure mode

Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

Having PMs go out and get certified as ScrumMasters is not sufficient. If a PM mind-set remains, the person will never become a ScrumMaster.

Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.

If you tie iterations to the ends of months, one out of every three iterations will coincide with the end of a fiscal quarter.

A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

Because the estimate for each feature is made relative to the estimates for other features, it does not matter if our estimates are correct, a little incorrect, or a lot incorrect. What matters is that they are consistent.