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“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Because the estimate for each feature is made relative to the estimates for other features, it does not matter if our estimates are correct, a little incorrect, or a lot incorrect. What matters is that they are consistent.”
― Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“No one should sign up for more than one or two cards at a time.”
― Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning

“Individuals should be given every incentive possible to work as a team. If the team’s throughput is increased by my helping someone else, that’s what I should do. Team velocity matters; individual velocity doesn’t.”
― Mike Cohn, Agile Estimating and Planning

“If we really want to spend our days programming, we are going to have to learn to talk to—people.1”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers