Jim Highsmith Quotes

• Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

  Jim Highsmith

  Opportunity, Views, Organization

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• The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

  Jim Highsmith

  Done, Way, Projects

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• Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

  Jim Highsmith

  Successful, People, Answers

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• Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

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  Intelligent, Simple, Routine

  Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility”, p.53, Addison-Wesley

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• Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

  Jim Highsmith

  Skills, Discipline, Understanding

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• The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

  Jim Highsmith

  Risk, Development, Faces

  Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems”, p.14, Addison-Wesley

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• If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

  Jim Highsmith

  Organization, Decision, Risk

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• Process is not a substitute for skill.

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  Skills, Process, Substitutes

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• If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

  Jim Highsmith

  People, Together, Projects

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• A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

  Jim Highsmith

  Weight, Size, Methodology

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