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

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

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.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.