‘Although the essence of Agile is self-organisation it has become something perversely imposed from above in a command and control manner.’

‘I’ve now finally come to the conclusion that the use of estimation of any kind in a project is not only a waste of time but is actually destructive.’ I’ve thought the same for some time.

Very droll.

‘ The same work gets done in the same amount of time, there’s just fewer estimation errors because there’s less estimating.’ GitHub’s development process sounds like developer heaven.

Reducing transaction cost in agile projects.

Everyone wants to claim to be Agile, whether they are or not.

‘The business started out by defining success as solving the problem, but now we have redefined success as delivering this list of stories.’

‘To paraphrase Eisenhower: Individual plans may not turn out to be helpful, but the act of planning is always indispensable.’ Don’t throw the design baby out with the bathwater because of the Agile proscription of Big Design Up Front. Design is useful, just don’t be constrained by it once development starts.

Funny. And true. I’ve seen most of these.

‘[T]he only good parts of Agile are just basic common sense’

‘Without continuous, incremental design, Scrum teams quickly dig themselves a gigantic hole of technical debt.’