Create Your Successful Agile Project Quotes

“You can’t go faster when you avoid technical excellence.”
― Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver

“Instead of failing fast, consider learning early. I find that learning early creates a different mindset for me. I now create small, safe-to-fail experiments. I manage my ambiguity around the entire deliverable by creating small steps.”
― Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver

“One of the best ways to create team safety is to create an environment in which team members feel safe to take risks.”
― Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver

“Create an opening to deliver feedback. Describe the behavior or result in a way that the person can hear. State the impact using “I” language. Make a request for continued or changed behavior.”
― Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver

“People learn together by working together. Don’t waste time on fake team-building activities such as anything physical. Those activities might be fun for some people, but they don’t help people learn how to work together at work.”
― Johanna Rothman, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver