Andrew Stellman > Quotes

“when agile projects fail, it’s often because of cultural and philosophical differences between waterfall and agile methodologies.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“Programmers need to learn about the business problem that needs to be solved.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“it’s universally important to understand the people on the team, how they work together, and how each person’s work impacts everyone else.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“Most software engineers are driven by pride of workmanship: we want to deliver products that we can stand behind, and that satisfy our users’ needs.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“(Dave West of Forrester Research came up with a term for this: “Water-Scrum-Fall.”6) In other words, they’ve become the most efficient waterfall team that they can be.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

“VersionOne is a company that builds agile software tools, and also contributes to the agile community in many other ways.”
― Andrew Stellman, Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban