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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.” —Chinese proverb

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Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

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If you tie iterations to the ends of months, one out of every three iterations will coincide with the end of a fiscal quarter.

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A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

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if we establish something as the “best possible way, the motivation for kaizen [continuous incremental improvement] will be gone

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The cone of uncertainty shows that during the feasibility phase of a project a schedule estimate is typically as far off as 60% to 160%. That is, a project expected to take 20 weeks could take anywhere from 12 to 32 weeks. After the requirements are written, the estimate might still b . . . Read more

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Planning is everything. Plans are nothing." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

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Even with a well-intentioned and highly communicative team, it is possible that the results of an iteration could be found worthless when shown to the broader organization or external users at the conclusion of the iteration.

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