The document celebrates the milestone of posting the 1000th quote on agile software development by curating the top 20 most popular quotes from practitioners and community speakers. These quotes emphasize various aspects of agile principles, teamwork, and personal growth in software development. The quotes reflect an audience-driven selection without editorial filtering, highlighting insights and humorous observations from the agile community.

1. TOP 20 QUOTESrelated to agile software development
to celebrate 1000th quote milestone
for AgileQuote

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3. October 30, 2013
1st quote posted!
July 28, 2016
1000th quote posted!

4. To celebrate 1000th quote milestone,
we gathered top 20 most popular quotes
to share here.
Full disclaimer: a choice made by our audience, we
just sorted by popularity, no editorial filtering.

5. “A group full of T-shaped people is
more flexible about the kind of work
they can take on than a group made
up of specialists.
-Esther Derby

6. “In any given moment we have two
options: to step forward into growth
or to step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow

7. “ScrumMasters, please don’t touch the
task board. It (and the items on it) do
not belong to you.
-Michele Sliger

8. “… the Agile movement in software is
part of a larger movement towards
more humane and dynamic
workplaces in the 21st century.
-Rowan Bunning

9. “Big egos have little ears.
-Robert Schuller

10. “I remind myself every morning:
Nothing I say this day will teach me
anything. So if I'm going to learn, I
must do it by listening.
-Larry King

11. “Listen, really listen to people who
disagree with you in order to fight
confirmation bias.
-Linda Rising

12. “Alignment enables
Autonomy
-Henrik Kniberg

13. “it's not a testing problem, it's a design
problem manifesting as a testing
problem. usually.
-Kent Beck

14. “If you adopt only one #agile practice,
let it be retrospectives. Everything
else will follow.
-Woody Zuill

15. “Rather than say “requirements”, say
“deciding what to build.” The verb
phrase works, the noun phrase
doesn’t.
-Alistair Cockburn

16. “Education is the most powerful
weapon which you can use
to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela

17. “My advice is to stop emphasizing the
process frameworks and start
focusing on the company culture
and mindsets.
-Selena Delesie

18. “Every retrospective
should be unique.
-Esther Derby

19. “Failure really just means that your
system is trying to tell you something
– so you’d better listen.
-Henrik Kniberg

20. “When the manager plays the role of
ScrumMaster, it’s highly unlikely the
Team will ever begin to self-organize.
-Pete Deemer

21. “If the code isn’t clear, it’s an odor that
needs to be removed by refactoring,
not by deodorizing the code with
a comment.
-Joshua Kerievsky

22. “Trying to speed project schedule by
reducing testing is like trying to lose
weight by donating blood.
-Klaus Leopold

23. “Software development is not
a rational process. It's a process
made by people with feelings with
bodies and with thinking. And by
putting all those together I can be a
more effective software developer.
-Kent Beck

24. “TDD creates consumption awareness:
when you create a unit test, you are
creating the first consumer of the
code under development.
-Neal Ford

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