Jim Highsmith Quotes

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

Process is not a substitute for skill.

Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.