"Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans."

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Source : Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional

Alistair Cockburn

#Communication Quotes #Skills Quotes #Community Quotes

“I wasn't fighting with Plushenko. I fought with myself and won”
“Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.”
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
“Friends see most of each otherâ€™s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.292, Crown
“Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.”
“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan
“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
“Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.”

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