The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to….

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen..

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment..

Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excel….

I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits..

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature..

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility..

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail..

Make it work, make it right, make it fast..

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accoun….

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth mo….

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something..

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical..

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works..

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer..

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were m….

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer..

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test..

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live ….

Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had t….