Quotes About Agile

I'm a bit tricky, direct, confident - I believe in myself in one-on-one situations.

It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.

Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about the last responsible moment. They piled story on story as quickly as possible with the least possible investment in design. Without daily attention to design, the cost of changes does skyrocket. The result is poorly designed, brittle, hard-to-change systems.

Listening , Testing , Coding , Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something .

Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom

Rather than apply minutes of suspect reasoning, we can just ask the computer by making the change and running the tests.

Cards on a wall is a way of practicing transparency, valuing and respecting the input of each team member. The project manager has the task of translating the cards into whatever format is expected by the rest of the organization.

Without automated testing, continuous integration is the fastest way to get a big pile of junk that never compiles or runs correctly.

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods.

all team members as well as passers-by can see the latest information at a glance: count of automated tests, velocity, incident reports, continuous integration status, and so on. This

By the 2000's, because of advances in technology and the adoption of Agile principles and practices, the time required to develop new functionality had dropped to weeks or months, but deploying into production would still require weeks or months, often with catastrophic outcomes.

a small number of reliable, automated tests are almost always preferable over a large number of manual or unreliable automated tests.

technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

do we work in small batches, ideally single-piece flow, getting fast and continual feedback on our work?

Instead of project teams where developers are reassigned and shuffled around after each release, never receiving feedback on their work, we keep teams intact so they can keep iterating and improving, using those leanings to better achieve their goals.

Small batch sizes result in less WIP, faster lead times, faster detection of errors, and less rework.

the developers will eventually be responsible for testing their own code, with QA taking a more strategic role, coaching and consulting.

While the foundation of DevOps can be seen as being derived from Lean, the Theory of Constraints, and the Toyota Kata movement, many also view DevOps as the logical continuation of the Agile software journey that began in 2001.

He was charming, funny, dimpled, daring. He could talk anyone into anything. He had a gift for drama and invention. He was a storyteller, a yarn-spinner, and an agile liar; he was good at fancying up facts to make his life seem less plain and mingy.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

Although now that I'm in middle management I'm supposed to call it refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation," or, if I'm being honest, "making it up as I go along.

Both of them were as athletic and as sleek as otters.

They use the word nice not synonymously with agreeable, attractive, or pleasant—qualities they strongly favor—but in an older sense, meaning fastidiously careful, delicate, precise, or overly refined. Too much of this kind of nice looks wrong to them, like a farmer mowing hay in a tuxedo.

I feel a deep connection to the primeval. I feel like an ancient hunter-gatherer who owns nothing as he wends his way through the complexities of nature, conjuring up a tool just in time for its use and then leaving it behind as he moves on. It is the farmer who needs a barn for his accumulation. The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next.