Some enjoyable quotes from #agile2009

Uncle Bob Martin

  • “If you want to know if a decision is wrong, make it!”
  • “The earlier you release, the happier customers are even if the release is ‘under-functioned’.”
  • “Manual test scripts are immoral.”
  • “If you aren’t writing tests, something is severely wrong. The jury decided a long time ago.”

Jared M Spool

  • “for those of you that don’t know sharepoint, it’s this little clusterf**k of an application.”
  • “Companies that are risk averse produce crap.”
  • “Once you remove quality as a requirement, everything else gets a lot easier”

Christopher Avery

  • “Waterfall is conformance to plan, where as Agile is conformance to Value”

Johanna Rothman

  • “In my world, people are never ‘resources’.”

Alistair Cockburn

  • “The inverse of risk is knowledge.”

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  1. Christopher Avery
    August 30, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    “Waterfall is conformance to plan, where as Agile is conformance to Value” is something I heard David Anderson say many years ago. I’m glad it is as quotable today as it was then.