Category: Quotables

In many organizations, the statement “We are agile!” translates to “We are working in a completely chaotic environment and are dealing with it somehow!”

Sprints are like pancakes – the first ones usually go wrong.

People who are scared of making mistakes end up making a lot of them.

True leadership is about enabling others to lead.

Developers do not work faster or better just because a micromanaging project manager has managed to acquire more status data.

Agile software development makes management and customers happy by getting the best possible performance out of development teams.

Agile software development gets the best possible performance out of development teams by making them happy.

“A dead Scrum Master is a useless Scrum Master.” – Ken Schwaber

“Motivating your people is always more important than establishing your own favorite processes.” – Jurgen Appelo

Paradoxically, you get the best performance out of humans not by focussing on their performance. 

You get the best performance out of humans by focussing on their happiness, satisfaction, sense of achievement and level of comfort.