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“No Heroics. If you need a hero to get things done, you have a problem. Heroic effort should be viewed as a failure of planning.”
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“That absolute alignment of purpose and trust is something that creates greatness.”
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“In software development there’s a term called “Brooks’s Law” that Fred Brooks first coined back in 1975 in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Put simply, Brooks’s Law says “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”8 This has been borne out in study after study.”
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

“Never do betas. Never do work that you don’t think is good. You either give your customer something good, or you don’t. There is no ‘try’.”
― The Power of Scrum
― The Power of Scrum

“Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.”
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
― Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

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