"Key issue" Quotes of the week (#5).

Sunday:
Frugality -Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. (Benjamin Franklin)
Monday:
"I can't go on, I go on". (Samuel Beckett)
Tuesday:
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions".(Lillian Hellman 1905 - 1984)
Wednesday:
Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. (Benjamin Franklin).
Thursday:
The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the others wants, and then help him the best way to get it.
Friday:
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way.(When you show a men what he wants, he will move heaven and earth to get it). Dale Carnegie
Saturday:
Cultivate the art of asking questions. Questions, rather than positive statements, can be the most effective means of making a sale, or winning people to your way of thinking. Inquire rather than attack.

Find the key issue, the most vulnerable point, then stick to it.

Scaling Software Agility

We note that the roots of this iterative process also grew from basic object-oriented thinking.(XP:Smalltalk; Scrum:Easel; RUP:OMT, Booch and Objectory). Perhaps here we have the final evidence that the advent of OO fundamentally changed the way we viewed system development practices. The pace of development accelerated; systems were more readily adapted and refactored; companion processes adapted to become fundamentally iterative in nature.

Dean Leffingwell

"Questions" Quotes of the week (4).

Sunday:
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. (Benjamin Franklin)
Tuesday:
Well? Shall we go? Yes, let's go. [They do not move] (Samuel Beckett)
Wednesday:
You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. (Les Brown)
Thursday:
We are not short on practices; we are short on practice. (Karl Wiegers)
Friday:
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient.
Saturday:
If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything.

"Think in terms of other's interest" quotes of the week. (#3)

Sunday:
Deserve confidence. The real test is: do you believe it, not, will the other person believe it?
Monday:
You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem.
Tuesday:
And as I know that God is found more often in the lowliest of His creatures than in the high and mighty, I am struggling to reach the status of these. (Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma(Great Soul) Gandhi 1869 -1948.
Wednesday:

· All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.

Thursday:

· What therefore God hath joined together, let not men put asonder. Bible

Friday:

· Let's hope it last!

Saturday:
Asking a person to change his habits or to be consisten in action are the two most difficul request I can think of. (Alistair CockBurn)

"Order self-organization" quotes of the week (#2)

Monday:
"I can hire a man to do everything but two things, think, and do things in the order of their importance." Henry L. Doherty
Tuesday:
Know your business and keep knowing your business.
Wednesday:
Treat others as you want to be treated.
Thursday:

· If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play and Z is keeping your mouth shut. (Alberth Einstein 1879 - 1955)

Friday:

Learn thoroughly what you learn; let your conduct be worthy of what is learnt. Thirukural Poet and Philosofer 31 B.C

Saturday:

· Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delgate authority, and don't interfere. (Ronald Reagan 1911 - 2004)