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“Gamification can provide the structure to engage, motivate, and focus the innovation activities of the crowd, whether they are employees, customers, or communities of interest.”
― Brian Burke, Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things

“Whenever you hear of a new IT project starting up with a large budget, teams of tens or hundreds of people, and a timeline of many months before something actually gets shipped, you can expect the project will go over time and budget and not deliver the expected value.”
― Jez Humble, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean

“Traction and product development are of equal importance and should each get about half of your attention. This is what we call the 50 percent rule: spend 50 percent of your time on product and 50 percent on traction. Building”
― Gabriel Weinberg, Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

“By keeping our initial customer base small — not chasing vanity numbers to get too big too fast — we force ourselves to keep it simple and maintain close contact with our customers every step of the way.”
― Jez Humble, Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean