Can you share some great quotes you use to teach management concepts or Scrum/agile?
Some of my favorites include: "A requirements document is background, not a backlog." and "You are a factory - what does your factory produce?" (focus on outputs - not inputs)
These two came from Michael James and Brian Tracy via Angela Druckman.
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"Best is the enemy of good." Sir John Harvey-Jones
Bill R.
Project Manager at NYC DOITT
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"You will never see kids playing follow the manager." - Bill Rinko-Gay
I have a favorite motivational quote that goes like this: "Success is a progressive realization of a worthwhile dream." This means if a person is working toward a predetermined goal day in day out he is already a success.
This quote is by Earl Nighttingale.
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Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz
Hi Katie,
Scott Duncan has several blog posts where he lists quotes he's pulled from various agilistas on Twitter. He's even been nice enough to quote me on occasion. :-)
Cheers,
Bob.
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Christine H.
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You are the CEO of your own company.
Best,
Christine Hueber
Engaging Social Media Relationship Marketing
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"You are either part of the problem or part of the solution"
United States Marine Corps NCO Academy
Here are my favourites. I think they work well together
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" by no idea? and I looked it up, no one else knows either.
I have to add this one too.
"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week." George S. Patton, US General (1885 - 1945)
I really like the violently executed part.
Another good one that occurs to me
"When you can say to yourself that you wish you had done this sooner or should have done it sooner, you have just done it at the perfect time".
This is my all time favourite.
Whatever it is that you think is missing, complain about, gripe about and generally go on and on about is just what YOU HAVE TO PUT IN!
All the best to you.
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You definitely want to take look this page:
http://freecomputerbooks.com/specialAgileBooks.html
Some books have a lot humors.
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From the world of sports:
"Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint
down a ball, that everyone thinks is going out. But
you go after it anyways ... and you get it."
~ Mia Hamm
"We closed the game out, we were very dogged,
with no frills to our performance; we just got stuck in."
~ Brian McLaughlin
Re Scrum/Agile:
"Stop Starting, Start Finishing!"
~ Sterling Mortensen
"If you don’t know how to get the story
out of the iteration – don’t let it in”
~ Sterling Mortensen
Others:
- Agile is not a metric, it's a journey.
- Short sprints make bad habits almost impossible.
- Well-run sprints are your heartbeat.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince
Jeff W.
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." ~ Peter Drucker
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." ~ George S. Patton
"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." ~ Publilius Syrus
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
~ Victor Hugo
"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
~ Fred Brooks
Jeff
I have a bunch but here are a few good items to think on:
"Misunderstandings rarely happen in words, they happen in the gap between words"
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."
~ William Jennings Bryan
Story tests verify "Building the right thing" vs. unit test that verify "Building the thing right"
“A man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, can never return to its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Man who says ‘it cannot be done’ should not interrupt the man doing it.”
old Chinese proverb
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
Yoda
"How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself—so always think positively."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone."
~John Maxwell
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
~ Charles Darwin
"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out."
~ James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard
Paul O.
Software Consultant, People and Process Engineer, Lean, Agile and RUP at Capgemini
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I can't get all I've collected in one message, here's about a third of them:
Flow is everything. Iterations are merely the training wheels. - Corey Ladas
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. -- A. A. Milne
The model that really matters is the model a person has in their mind. All other models and documentation serve only to get the right model into the right mind at the right time. -- Paul Oldfield
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. --Charles Darwin
If you have procedures that haven't changed in 30 days then the manager is stealing from the company because he is not doing his job -- Taichi Ohno
I know we always like to say it'll be easier to do it now than it will be to do it later. Not likely. I plan to be smarter later than I am now, so I think it'll be just as easy later, maybe even easier. Why pay now when we can pay later? -- Ron Jeffries
Agility might be said to be about encountering all the problems so early and so often that the effort to fix them is less than the pain of enduring them. – Ron Jeffries
“In the Knowledge Economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.” -- Peter Drucker
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"The biggest waste of all, completely overshadowing all others, is the waste of recreating knowledge which we already possessed" -- Taiichi Ohno
“Would it be madness to tell a group of musicians that they cannot be a symphony orchestra without being collocated?” -- Ilja Preuss
Wisdom begins when we discover the difference between "That makes no sense" and "I don't understand". --Mary Doria Russell
“Without the thinking, copying the practices will give a poor fit to any other context. It’s not what we do that makes the difference; it’s how we decide what we do that makes the difference.” -- Paul Oldfield
The man happy in his work is not the narrow specialist, nor the well-rounded man, but the man who is doing what he loves to do. You must fall in love with some activity. --Richard P. Feynman
Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement. -- Suzuki Roshi
"You can get a buffalo to go anywhere you want it to go--if it wants to go there." -- Jerry Weinberg
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw
Talent determines how fast you get good, not how good you get. -- Richard Gabriel
“Unconscious incompetence. If a team doesn't know that there are practices that can dramatically improve their work, then they won't know that they have any impediments in the first place. They may be feeling pain with respect to software quality and unrealistic schedules, but they keep doing the same things over and over again." -- Dave Rooney
“Any form of life cycle is a project management structure imposed on system development. To contend that any life cycle scheme, even with variations, can be applied to all system development is either to fly in the face of reality or to assume a lifecycle so rudimentary as to be vacuous.” -- Daniel McCracken and Michael Jackson (ACM SE Notes, Apr 1982).
"Too often, managers throw a group of people together and declare it a team. Calling a group a team doesn't make it so." -- Esther Derby
“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion it has occurred." -- Michael James
“Anything which needs agreement will eventually fail at scale” -- amazon CTO: Werner Vogels
management is like a fly which goes........
scroll down
..........up now where are u
Valentin-Tudor M.
Project Manager (Software Development), PMP
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The following quote is true for some kinds of interpreting and usage of the management, software development in general and agile and (especially) Scrum in particular:
'For every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and wrong'
H.L. Mencken
Beware (how you do it)!
Larry E.
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Katie; - Our consulting firm uses an old proverb,
Vision without Action is a dream
Action without vision is a nightmare
Its alarming just how many applications that one proverb has in business.
Larry Ellis
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If you want something done, give it to a busy executive.
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Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
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'So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.' — Peter Drucker
Thanks every one for sharing. Here is one.
"It's not my problem. The hole is in their side of the boat."
"Complexity is not infinity" is the way I describe a management concept in Scrum/Agile.
Samy G.
Owner, British Egyptian group for control and Automotive
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مشروع الحفر والتشكيل على الخشب
(مشروع النجارة)
مميزات المشروع:
1- يمكنك بدء المشروع بمكنة واحدة فلا يحتاج لمكان كبير 2- يتم برمجة المكنة من خلال الحاسب واعطاء أمر بحفر رسمة معينة على الخشب ثم تركها لتنفيذها 3- لا تحتاج لوقت كبير إن كنت تريد زيادة دخلك بها إلى جانب عملك أو دراستك 4- عند شراء المكنة: توجد عروض قسط متاحة في الأسوق بمقدمة تبدأ من 15 ألف جم 5- عند بيع الأبواب الخشبية: تبدأ أسعار الأبواب من 50 جم الباب البسيط إلى ما يزيد عن 2000 جم للأبواب الفخمة 7- تضمن لك دخل شهري ثابت إلى جانب سداد قسط المكنة لأنك ممكن تسد قسط المكنة من بيع باب واحد فخم في الشهر، والأسعار أعلى في دول الخليج
المنتجات:
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كيفية عمل أشكال خشبية بفن السيلويت
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تعلم كيف تصنع الأعمال الخشبية بمكنة الحفر على الخشب
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تصنيع الزخارف الخشبية بمكنة الحفر على الخشب
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