Quotes About Agile

Nimble is an interesting word. It suggests youth.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Deco is a very skillful player. He thinks very fast on the pitch.

Semper Gumby, he thinks. Always flexible.

She's still as fast as a whip.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.

I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I obviously want to feel good when I am working, but I also want to feel energized and agile all the time. As a New Yorker, I live in the land of plenty, and yet every day I see people who could use a good meal.

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.

We found in surveys of Agile teams that some 80 percent to 90 percent of Agile teams perceive tension between the way the Agile team is run and the way the whole organization is run. In half of those cases, the tension was "serious.

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

If you are thinking about Agile as a set of tools and processes, you're looking for the wrong thing. You can't go to the store and "buy some Agile management.

In the Agile organization, "customer focus" means something very different. In firms that have embraced Agile, everyone is passionately obsessed with delivering more value to customers. Everyone in the organization has a clear line of sight to the ultimate customer and can see how their work is adding value to that customer—or not. If their work isn't adding value to any customer or user, then an immediate question arises as to why the work is being done at all.

In other words, firms don't have to be "born Agile," like Spotify. Even big, old firms can undertake an Agile transformation if they set their minds and hearts to it—and stick with it.

The premise of Agile management is that empowering bottom-up innovation will steadily add significant value for customers and the firm.

The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.

Agile terminology describes this type of flowchart as an "information radiator." Having large, highly visible displays lets everyone on the team track everyone else's progress. "If you have something public like this in your home," Jeff said, "I guarantee you'll get twice as much done. Guarantee.

His movements could be called catlike, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days.

I am very flexible and can kick over my head.

We didn't want to sound like an old and crusty financial institution. We wanted to sound like we were fast moving and that we had this killer technology that was also safe.

I have always followed my passion to dance religiously. And that keeps me agile and youthful at heart.