Tamer Solieman

“As the agile coach, make sure the product owner knows how to prioritize the backlog and when to have it done. Offer to coach him through the thinking needed to prioritize it, but if he declines your offer and shows up to sprint planning with the backlog unprepared, then let the consequences be what they will be. In other words, let the product owner fail.”
― Lyssa Adkins, Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

“Change will not happen when people see it as something that doesn’t benefit them personally, or something that they’re unable to implement.”
― Jurgen Appelo, How to Change the World: Change Management 3.0

“Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others—sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on—can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“Not always, but a lot of the time, when you are doing a piece for someone else it becomes more “work” than joy. When I work for myself there is the pure joy of creating and I can work through the night and not even know it.”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us