But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work—things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.

— Ed Catmull

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

— Pearl Zhu

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of gray between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

— Jurgen Appelo

Half, Not Half-assed

— 37 Signals

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.

— Jim Highsmith

In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

— Jim Highsmith

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

— Jim Highsmith

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

— Pearl Zhu

Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.

— Pearl Zhu

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I’s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.

— Pearl Zhu