Top Software Development Quotes

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Scrum is like your mother-in-law , it points out all your faults – Anonymous

One test is worth a thousand expert opinions . Bill Nye The Science Guy

As we’ve grown, we need to focus on scale and on large engagements and those are only possible with Agile–there’s no other way. – Anonymous

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower – Steve Jobs

It’s Kind of fun to do THE IMPOSSIBLE – Walt Disney

Defacts are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them . – W.E.Deming

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner . – Jim Highsmith

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. – Fred Brooks

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. – Ralph Johnson

Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out. – C.A.R. Hoare

Everyone has a plan: until they get punched in the face. – Mike Tyson

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. – Proverb

Running a project without a WBS is like going to a strange land without a roadmap. – J. Phillips

If, on your team, everyone’s input is not encouraged, valued, and welcome, why call it a team? – Woody Williams

Project management is like juggling three balls – time, cost and quality. Program management is like a troupe of circus performers standing in a circle, each juggling-three balls and swapping balls from time to time. – G. Reiss

Rewards and motivation are an oil change for project engines. Do it regularly and often. – Woody Williams

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible. – Kenichi Ommae

You can copy structures, methods, rules, etc from another org. You can’t copy their culture though. – Martin Jensen

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate. – Jeff Bezos

It’s not fail fast, fail often. It’s learn fast learn often. – Anonymous

Solve only the problems you have, not the ones you think you are going to have. – Anonymous

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. – Peter Drucker