Darrell Rigby > Quotes

“there is an optimal level of change for every business, and for every activity within a business. Ideally, an agile business system would operate at the golden mean between change deficiency—leading to a static business system that adapts too slowly to survive—and change excess, creating a chaotic business system that constantly risks spinning out of control.”
― Darrell Rigby, Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

“In a truly agile enterprise, bureaucracy and innovation become partners. They create a system where both elements improve and where people in each camp collaborate to generate superior results. We’ll show how to harmonize the two in this book.”
― Darrell Rigby, Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

“pursue continuous improvements”
― Darrell Rigby, Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

“Anyone contemplating it has to pass F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous test of a first-rate intelligence: “the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
― Darrell Rigby, Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos