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“Agile is simple—it just isn’t easy.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.”
― Ron Jeffries

“Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.”
― Ron Jeffries

“software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let’s not just try harder. Let’s find a better way.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“During planning, especially short-term planning, it’s tempting to set up “stretch goals” or to “encourage” the team to do “just one more feature.” Please do not do this. It’s devastatingly destructive. The reason is that the team will in fact try. Eager to please, they’ll unconsciously hurry. They’ll leave out just a few tests. They’ll leave the code not quite as clean as they might have, just to squeeze in one more feature.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“we want value, we want value soon, and we want highest value first.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“Always work on the highest possible value next.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“The first thing we know about any project is the deadline—at”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“Keeping the design good as it changes is called refactoring.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece