Agile Methodology Quotes

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

In a startup car company, everything you do has to be done in a different way than a traditional car company. And the main reason is that all of these big car companies are operating like giant well-oiled machines - you could put a very seasoned executive in, and all he has to do is make sure the machine keeps running.

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.

Doing it wrong fast is at least better than doing it wrong slowly.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

You don't need anyone's approval and in fact, you probably won't get it, so don't even try. Build, release and iterate. Make a list of the features you want to create over the next six months and get going! For small companies, once a week; for larger companies, maybe twice a month.

Extreme programming is an emotional experience.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

I just want to build great products.