Ten Agile Fortune Cookies

  • Small is better than big
  • Great teams are better than star individuals
  • Courage and heroism are different
  • Earning reputation is better than acquiring status
  • Agilists in a non-agile business are not agile enough
  • Your career is more important than your job
  • We crave human contact with the people who use our software
  • We can earn wages and be fair, honest, and worthy of trust
  • Robbing people of joy is evil
  • There are worse fates than being a dead sheepdog