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To build the perfect sprint team, first you’re going to need a Danny Ocean: someone with authority to make decisions. That person is the Decider, a role so important we went ahead and capitalized it. The Decider is the official decision-maker for the project.
Jake Knapp • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jeff Patton, one of the early Agile thinkers, was frustrated by this, so he leveraged some proven UX design techniques, and adapted them to Agile concepts and introduced user story maps.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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Test as you go, not at the end—a bug fixed now is cheaper than one that has had a chance to propagate through a system for months. Deliver product early and often, as only by demonstrating working software to your customer can you find out what they really want.
Chris Sims • The Elements of Scrum
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the upcoming one. Ignore everything else. Don’t work on anything that doesn’t h... See more