63 Quotes by Jim Highsmith

A team can employ agile practices, but it won’t achieve the potential benefit of agile development without embracing agile values and principles.

Agility is principally about mindset, not practices.

The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.

In my early years of iterative development, I thought timeboxes were actually about time. What I came to realize is that timeboxes are actually about forcing tough decisions.

If you want to innovate, you have to iterate!

In high-performance teams, “the leaders managed the principles, and the principles managed the team.

Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos – some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the “art” of agile leadership.

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

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline.