Quotes About Efficiency

While a team's deliverable is the product, a scrum master's deliverable is a high-performing, self-organizing team. The

The Standish Group's 2002 "Chaos" study of software project success and failure rates states that in a typical software system, 45% of features are never used. Only 7% of features are always used, and another 13% are used often.

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

The better performing of your business units are likely to be those operating the furthest below their full potential.

Consider this: on average, new companies that reach Fortune 500 scale today are doing so more than two times faster than just two decades ago, and the fastest—the world record holders for scaling—are exceeding prior records by a wide margin.

He had a reputation for clearing his desk of every file before leaving every day. Without a haystack, he felt, you can't lose any needles.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

I like to be busy," she says. "And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don't you?

She made an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop that lays it all out. Jack would laugh if he knew, but she's been in the system long enough to understand that it all comes down to documentation.

Get your papers in order, with the right signatures and record keeping, and the charges will be dropped, money released, whatever. If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

Time spent talking in meetings is not a success metric.

Ishte si kub, zemërmirë dhe praktik.

Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given. Once upon a time, he remembered, people and companies just did things. But that ceased to be impressive enough, and for a while they 'actively' did things. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. Meaningless wank-language.

In parks, when people veer from the established paths and cut new ones through the grass, these are called "desire lines." Many people have the same desire when it comes to walking, which implies that we all want to get to the same place, and more quickly.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Klotzen, nicht Kleckern' (the

How should those of us of no great education challenge him at table when he compared the efficiency of lions and camels and arrived at the conclusion that the carnivorous lion was far less efficient than the camel in the desert, which ate plants and grass.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

It is no use wasting our time,

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

If anyone plays the martyr card, staying late or working too much, they're more likely to get a leaflet about efficiency or time management dropped on their desk than any sympathy.

remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.