Scott M. > Scott's Quotes

“Let’s talk about Minimum Viable Product, or as I like to call it: the art of building just enough to find out you’re wrong.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“No more “fake Agile.” No more box-checking.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“Currently detecting 3% actual buy-in.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“The team was flowing. Work in progress was under control. Features were used by customers. It was like watching a unicorn drive a Tesla through a burndown chart.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“The room had all the trappings of corporate cosplay: walls lined with meaningless jargon posters (“Fail Fast,” “Think Lean,” “Sprint or Die!”), whiteboards no one had written on, and an “Agile Champion.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“Quix even built a kanban board that talked. It had an AI voice that said things like, “Your velocity is weak, and your story points are ashamed to be associated with you.” We named it KanbanChatterbox.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. Traditional development and delivery frameworks such as waterfall are often ineffective. In contrast, Scrum is a value-driven agile approach which incorporates adjustments based on regular and repeated customer and stakeholder feedback. And Scrum’s built-in rapid response to change leads to substantial benefits such as fast time-to-market, higher satisfaction, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

“If you don’t collect any metrics, you’re flying blind. If you collect and focus on too many, they may be obstructing your field of view.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

“Agile coach: The individual is an agile expert who provides guidance for new agile implementations as well as existing agile teams. The agile coach is experienced in employing agile techniques in different environments and has successfully run diverse agile projects. The individual builds and maintains relationships with everyone involved, coaches individuals, trains groups, and facilitates interactive workshops. The agile coach is typically from outside the organization, and the role may be temporary or permanent.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

“The MVP has just those features considered sufficient for it to be of value to customers and allow for it to be shipped or sold to early adopters. Customer feedback will inform future development of the product.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

“Potentially shippable is defined by a state of confidence or readiness, and shipping is a business decision.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

“By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum's values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

“Thriving in today’s marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

“Strong executive commitment is a success factor for implementing Scrum, and management can best demonstrate their support of the transformation through their actions.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions