Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

- Jim Highsmith

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

- Jim Highsmith

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

- Jim Highsmith

Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

- Jim Highsmith

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

- Jim Highsmith

If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability …

- Jim Highsmith

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner

- Jim Highsmith

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

- Jim Highsmith

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

- Jim Highsmith