UNLIMITED SCOPE CREEP

"If project content is allowed to change freely the rate of change will exceed the rate of progress."

Source: Anonymous

CAN'T WAIT FOR INSPIRATION

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Source: Jack London

LISTENING TO GENERAL OPINION

"You can't listen to general opinion. You'd end up doing a little watercolour of a bowl of violets."

Source: Gilbert and George.

IT'S JUST WHAT WE ASKED FOR

"And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: It's just what we asked for but not what we want."

Source: Anonymous

A DEFINITION OF FANATICISM

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

Source: George Santayana

NEW MISTAKES

"You are making progress if each mistake is a new one. "

Source: Anonymous proverb

ALIGN AUTHORITY

"Align authority and responsibility."

Source: Anonymous

SCRUM IS...

“Scrum is more than just Standing Up and Burning Down.”

Source: a T-Shirt

THROWING YOURSELF OFF A CLIFF

"Entrepreneurship is throwing yourself off a cliff & assembling a plane on the way down"

Source: Reid Hoffman

EASIER TO TALK ABOUT CHANGE

"It is always easier to talk about change than to make it."

Source: Alvin Toffler

TIME IS THE SCARCEST RESOURCE

"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

Source: Peter Drucker

AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Source: Albert Einstein.

BLESSED ARE THE FLEXIBLE

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”

Source: Michael McGriffy