Quotes About Progress

To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.

Get humans out of the deployment business.

There were still so many uncertainties. But unlike before, our challenges feel within our ability to understand and conquer. Our goals finally seem achievable. I no longer feel like I am always on my heels, with more and more people piling on, trying to push me over.

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.

Don't fight stupid, make more awesome.

The Phoenix Project is ultimately a book about transformation, and so it is incredibly gratifying to see it being used as an instrument to create transformations in real life as well.

You're right that you can't achieve the strategic until you've mastered the tactical,

In 1958, the Fortune 500 tenure was 61 years; now it's only 18 years.

we value improvement of our daily work more than daily work itself.

Maybe not," I say. "I'll tell you what I do know, though. Every time that we let Brent fix something that none of us can replicate, Brent gets a little smarter, and the entire system gets dumber.

little fish learn to be big fish in little ponds.

if we all want our developers to be productive, they need to be able to perform builds on Day One.

INCREASE THE VISIBILITY OF WORK In order to be able to know if we are making progress toward our goal, it's essential that everyone in the organization knows the current state of work. There are many ways to make the current state visible, but what's most important is that the information we display is up to date, and that we constantly revise what we measure to make sure it's helping us understand progress toward our current target conditions.

we are all lifelong learners who must take risks in our daily work.

work in process' or 'inventory

Every industry and company that is not bringing software to the core of their business will be disrupted.

business project work as one.

Technology keeps changing faster and faster, and it's nearly impossible to keep up anymore.

Just how many times can you throw out everything you know to keep up with the latest new-fangled trend

Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

When every team expedites their work, the net result is that every project ends up moving at the same slow crawl.

If we know it's that prone to crashing, why do we need to change it?

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