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Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

Process is not a substitute for skill.

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.

Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.

In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

The essence of Agile movement, whether in new product development, new service offerings, software applications, or project management, rests on two foundational goals: delivering valuable products to customers and creating working environments in which people look forward to coming to work each day.