Understanding The Agile Manifesto Quotes

“This principle fits well with the concept of business and development working daily. Business needs to be intensely involved with the process, if for nothing more than identifying the 80% of the work that we really don’t have to do. Just think of the amount of money that could be saved every year by reducing project scope to only those features and functions that are actually used! Think of how quickly we could deliver functionality! Think of how many more “projects” we could complete!”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“Managers must be true servant leaders (and the scrum framework calls this out in the position of scrum master as servant leader) for their people. The front line workers are not there to serve their managers. It is up to management to create an environment that allows workers to do their work.            ”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“real humans do not like being micro-managed and the majority of workers are motivated more by intrinsic factors than extrinsic rewards.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“Because the time spent finding and fixing code that wasn’t created using TDD was greater than if they had slowed down and done the initial coding properly, trying to write code faster by neglecting technical excellence was actually slower in the long run.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“In software development the primary measure of progress has to be working software that meets the needs of the end users.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“The real benefits of agile lies in greater transparency, predictability and faster time to market.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“The phrase “valuable software” reminds us to always be vigilant that we are actually concentrating our efforts on the most valuable stories, those that will give the most return on our investment.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile

“The first Agile principle is that our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. This provides the grounding teams need as they pursue the Agile path.”
― Larry Apke, Understanding The Agile Manifesto: A Brief & Bold Guide to Agile