The Art of Business Value Quotes

“The Enterprise and Scrum.”
― Mark Schwartz, The Art of Business Value

“The difficulty is that culture is unwritten and unstated. For the Agile team to use culture as a guide to what is valued by the business, it must excavate, deduce, hypothesize, and test. One thing that it cannot do is to try to rip out the existing culture and replace it with a “more Agile” one. Corporate culture is not an impediment to Agile adoption; it is a valuable clue to defining the success of Agile adoption.”
― Mark Schwartz, The Art of Business Value

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus, The Discourses Make for thyself a definition or description of the thing which is presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in its substance, in its nudity, in its complete entirety, and tell thyself its proper name, and the names of the things of which it has been compounded. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations”
― Mark Schwartz, The Art of Business Value

“In the case of a transformational business initiative, for example, management wants to create fundamental change in the organization’s processes, but individual users in the organization may not share that vision or may not be expert in interpreting and applying it. They might have smaller, more “local” priorities than the big-picture transformation that management has in mind.”
― Mark Schwartz, The Art of Business Value

“The real value—and the real effort—lies in helping business managers identify how to change the business and then helping them play their roles in implementing those changes.”
― Mark Schwartz, The Art of Business Value