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マイクコーン氏
アジャイル・アライアンスおよびスクラム・アライアンスの創業メンバーの1人で、世界的に有名なアジャイルトレーナーです。
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今回は、個人的に響いたものをいくつかご紹介します。原文のまま味わってください。どうぞ！
Mr. Mike Cohn, an outstanding figure in the agile community, is a co-founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. In his “Mountain Goat Software” site, he introduced 101 inspiring quotes about agile.
I want to share some of them with you here that really resonated with me. Hope you will find them useful and appreciate them as much as I do too. Here you go!
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
by Henry Ford
This indispensable first step to getting what you want is this: Decide what you want.
by Ben Stein (Actor)
Scrum without automation is like driving a sports car on a dirt track – you won’t experience the full potential, you will get frustrated, and you will probably end up blaming the car…
by Ilan Goldstein (Scrum trainer and author)
In XP, we don’t divide and conquer. We conquer and divide. First we make something that works, then we bust that up and solve the little parts.
by Kent Beck (XP trainer and author)
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed by the results.
by General George S. Patton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
by Winston Churchill
As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic.
by Robert C. Martin “Uncle Bob” (Agile trainer and author)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
by Thomas Edison
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
by Leonard Bernstein
People are remarkably good at doing what they want to do.
by Joseph Little (Scrum trainer and author)
After working for some years in the domains of large, multisite, and offshore development, we have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don’t do it.
by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman (Agile trainer and authors)
Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.
by Ken Schwaber (Scrum trainer and author)
Keep your roadmap simple and easy to understand. Capture what really matters; leave out the rest.
by Roman Pichler (Agile trainer and author)
The important thing is not your process. The important thing is your process for improving your process.
by Henrik Kniberg (Agile trainer and author)
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
by Henry Ford
It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author)
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then start on the first one.
by Anonymous
As a general rule of thumb, when benefits are not quantified at all, assume there aren’t any.
by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (Software development authors)
As an Agile coach, you don’t need to have all the answers; it takes time and a few experiments to hit on the right approach.
by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley (Agile trainers and authors)
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.
by Mario Andretti (World Champion Racing Driver)
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
by Winston Churchill
It doesn’t matter how good you are today; if you’re not better next month, you’re no longer agile.
by Mike Cohn (Agile trainer and author)
We regularly coach groups that ask, “How can we calculate how many people we will need?” Our suggestion is, “Start with a small group of great people, and only grow when it really starts to hurt.” That rarely happens.
by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman (Agile trainers and authors)
We don’t need an accurate document. We need a shared understanding.
by Jeff Patton (Agile trainer)
Change is scary, but complacency is deadly.
by Dave Dame (Agile leader)
No matter what the problem is, it’s always a people problem.
by Gerald M.Weinberg
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
by Winston Churchill
The benefits of allowing a team to self-organize isn’t that the team finds some optimal organization for their work that a manager may have missed. Rather, it is that by allowing the team to self-organize, they are encouraged to fully own the problem.
by Mike Cohn (Agile trainer and author)
Remember: it’s not the documentation that needs to be in sync, but the people.
by George Dinwiddie (Agile coach and trainer)
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
by Martin Fowler (Author and programmer)
The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.
by Jim Highsmith (Agile author)
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.
by Kent Beck (XP trainer and author)
Be fixed on the vision, but flexible on the journey.
by Jeff Bezos (Founder of Amazon)
マイクコーン氏の書籍「アジャイルな見積りと計画づくり」。300ページオーバーの軽いとは言えない本ですが、プランニングの重要さを再認識させてくれる良書です。お薦めです。
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