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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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In our modern world, the most important work we do is cognitive; so, it’s not surprising that a structure developed for physical work isn’t optimal for intellectual work.

David Marquet in a book "Turn The Ship Around!"

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If you approach and engage people with respect and empathy, the seemingly impossible can become real.

Robert Iger  in a book "The Ride of a Lifetime"

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The word 'story' in #agile teams has become superfluous, as these artefacts have become a means to capture technical information as documentation rather than making a connection between the character and the reader.

Paul Goddard in a tweet

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Never let an "agile" framework, method or tool prevent you from experimenting. "We are discovering better ways...", the opening line of the Agile Manifesto, requires active experimentation.

Joshua Kerievsky in a tweet

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Story maps can be used at any point in the product-development process to drive discussion and align the team. You can create a story map to plot the experience for a new product, after initial discovery work, or for an existing product, after usability testing.

Anna Kaley in an article "Mapping User Stories in Agile"

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We only use feedback when this is the most cost-effective way to achieve our goal. Using feedback is a technical choice, it is not "required" to deal with variation.

Donald Reinertsen in an article "Types of Processes"

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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert F. Kennedy

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On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over.

Robert K. Greenleaf in a book "The Servant as Leader"

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At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.

Angela Duckworth in a book "Grit"

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you'll either be figuring out how to undesign structural inequities in your organization or losing to someone who is

Ben Mosior in a tweet

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But to be at all successful with Scrum you really need a growth mindset in place, a willingness to learn and change and a culture of trust and openness.

Duncan Maddox in an article "Is Scrum the right approach for every problem?"

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…in order to help customers, we need to help employees, and if we align employee fulfilment and corporate destiny, we will all thrive together.

Michael Ballé in an article "Lean: the helping organization"

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I've observed a lot of daily standup type meetings. Most of them should have gone like this: "Do we intend to work together on a common goal" "We work independently and prefer it that way" "Ok, meeting adjourned."

Zach Bonaker in a tweet

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Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

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Understand your market overestimates their current solution just as much as you overestimate the quality of your product. This means products with only marginal improvements don’t break through. The lead will only change hands when a 10X product arrives.

Des Traynor in a book "Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done"

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Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.

Michael Lewis in a book "The Undoing Project"