Quote by Gene Kim

“Kanban boards are an ideal tool to create visibility, and visibility is a key component in properly recognizing and integrating Ops work into all…

— Gene Kim

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very…

— Dan Ariely

“interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater…

— Gene Kim

“Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.”

— Susan Cain

Development is maintenance.

— Brian Marick

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual…

— Peter Senge

Productivity is never an accident. It's always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused on effort.

— Paul J. Meyer

“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch food so…

— Mordin Solus

“we also design our system of work so that we can multiply the effects of new knowledge, transforming local discoveries into global improvements. Regardless…

— Gene Kim

“Work is not done when Development completes the implementation of a feature—rather, it is only done when our application is running successfully in production,…

— Gene Kim

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

— Bertrand Russell

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

— Jeff Koons