Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?
- Ron Jeffries
When we are blind to systemic causes of problems, all the solutions we try will likely make matters worse.
- Esther Derby
If we have a fully defined backlog, we no longer have a true Agile Product Development situation. Instead, we have a project
- Ron Jeffries
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
- Martin Fowler
The fact is, when you look at the best teams - like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today - there isn’t this separation of roles.
- Jeff Sutherland
First-time product owners need time, trust, and support to grow into their new role.
- Roman Pichler
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
- Kent Beck
If you are the only person on your Scrum team that can do a particular job, you should be fired.
- Jeff Sutherland
Any Scrum without working product at the end of a sprint is a failed Scrum.
- Jeff Sutherland
You can't be agile when you're knee-deep in mud
- Martin Fowler
If we try to hide the small failures so that nobody sees them, all they see is the large failures we can't hide.
- Yves Hanoulle
A sprint would only be a failure if the team didn’t deliver anything and didn’t learn from it.
- Mike Cohn
If your team wants to propose a 'technical story', I suggest they upgrade their skills until they no longer want to do that.
- Ron Jeffries
DevOps is not about learning each other's job, it's understanding the money is made when software is actually running in production
- Dave Mangot
...a team that gets really good at Scrum and another that gets really good at Kanban will be largely identical in practice.
- Mike Cohn
You can’t solve someone’s problem with code if you don’t understand their problem.
- Adam Haney, Bellhops
Being proud of 100% test coverage is like being proud of reading every word in the newspaper. Some are more important than others.
- Kent Beck
Scrum doesn't fix your problems. Scrum shows you your problems. You're supposed to fix the problems.
- Ron Jeffries
Remember: it's not the documentation that needs to be kept in sync, but the people
- George Dinwiddie
Goal: a strong culture of continuous improvement, driven from below and supported from above.
- Henrik Kniberg
Real Agile is about paying attention to what happens, and dealing with it. Do that.
- Ron Jeffries
Focus on effectiveness first, then efficiency.
- Henrik Kniberg
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
- Bram Cohen
Do the planning, but throw out the plans
- Mary Poppendieck
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