Agile Quotes: top 87 famous quotes about Agile

Agile Quotes & Sayings

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Agile is more a "direction," than an "end," a philosophy and mindset at board level. — Pearl Zhu

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning. — Don Yaeger

I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going. — Dennis Christopher

There's no way to force someone to be energized. However, you can remove roadblocks. — James Shore

The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers. — Jim Highsmith

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. — Orlando Bloom

Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation. — Pearl Zhu

You tripped over my baggage, when it could have been easily navigated by more agile feet. — Fiona Helmsley

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony. — Pearl Zhu

Anyone can plan but it takes someone who is agile to understand that their plan is not concrete. — C.J. Holt

Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability. — Pearl Zhu

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A long descriptive name is better than a short enigmatic name. A long descriptive name is better than a long descriptive comment. — Robert C. Martin

The iterative piece of agile can be defined by four key terms: iterative, feature-based, timeboxed, and incremental. — Jim Highsmith

Change is not for its own sake, it's the means to the end, not the end. — Pearl Zhu

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible. — Bertrand Meyer

Celebrate Successes, but Don't Declare Victory — Sam Guckenheimer

So I hope I've made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag. — Martin Fowler

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. — Alfred Hitchcock

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams. — Jim Highsmith

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans. — Alistair Cockburn

The main dysfunctions of agile team are absence of trust, inattention to results, lack of commitment, — Thiyagarajan Perumal

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat. — Jim Highsmith

You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead. — Pearl Zhu

To be truly agile requires a state of mind, a mindset that informs every decision. An agile state of being takes more than following a few practices. — Belinda Waldock

We need to uncover better ways to improve and retrospectives can provide the solution. — Ben Linders

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation. — Baba Kalyani

IT agility is a mentality, culture, process, and perspective. — Pearl Zhu

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company. — Ray Kroc

The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects. — Jim Highsmith

Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives. — Pearl Zhu

team factors for agile project success: the dedicated team and the cross-functional team. — Mark C. Layton

Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations, — Barry Boehm

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am. — Tyson Chandler

Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working. — Ben Linders

...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages... — Bess Streeter Aldrich

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts. — Luke Goss

The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. — Mark Helprin

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans. — Barry Boehm

when agile projects fail, it's often because of cultural and philosophical differences between waterfall and agile methodologies. — Andrew Stellman

Without a good facilitator, a retrospective most likely will be a disaster. — Luis Goncalves

Agility should not be translated to sacrificing planning, management guidelines, and quality assurance. — Pearl Zhu

In essence, Agile is a philosophy and a set of principles. — Pearl Zhu

The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working. — Ben Linders

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids. — Bruce Feiler

Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say. — Pearl Zhu

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy. — Jurgen Appelo

To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light. — Ellen Meloy

For heavens sake, if you haven't gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now. — Tim Bray

Thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans. — George Vecsey

Agility within and of itself is a strategy. — Pearl Zhu

With agile retrospectives the team drives their own actions! — Ben Linders

Retrospectives can make your organization faster, more efficient and innovative. — Ben Linders

The agile way is more adapt to changes but shall not lose the sight of big picture. — Pearl Zhu

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "I"s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement. — Pearl Zhu

Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model. — Jim Highsmith

Agile is not just a methodology, but a set of principles and philosophy. — Pearl Zhu

Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery. — Sekar Arum

All what is existing already existed. We are together for a while pondering in agile world. — Santosh Kalwar

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! — Salvador Dali

A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell. — Steve Martin

The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became — Donald G. Reinertsen

Half, Not Half-Assed — 37 Signals

Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. — Niki Tsongas

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. — Steve Ballmer

Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage. — Adam Vardy

In an agile project the team takes care of the tasks and the project leader takes care of the team. — Jim Highsmith

Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context. — Pearl Zhu

The agile way is customer-centric, purpose-driven, capability-based and talent-oriented. — Pearl Zhu

Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs! — Ben Linders

Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems."
- Harry & Poppy — Lisa Kleypas

Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization. — Leah Busque

At its core, Agile is a mindset. — Pearl Zhu

Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game! — Lance Berkman

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature. — Pearl Zhu

Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments. — Luis Goncalves

A retrospective's huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member. — Luis Goncalves

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there. — John Katzman

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management. — Paul Gibbons

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy

Getting feasible actions out of a retrospective and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve. — Ben Linders

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles. — Pearl Zhu

Agile DevOps Cloud computing Design thinking These practices all share a cybernetic model of control. This — Jeff Sussna

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle. — Pearl Zhu

Agile processes guarantee change and your ability to make these changes depends on your application's design. — Sandi Metz

Before starting a retrospective, you need to think about which exercises would be most suitable. — Ben Linders