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21 " Innovation delivers products that we can barely imagine. Efficiency and optimization are appropriate drivers for a production project, whereas innovation and creativity should drive an exploration-type project. A production mindset can restrict our vision to what appears doable. An exploration mindset helps us explore what seems impossible. "
― , Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
22 " We live in an age in which the volume of available information stupefies us. On any relatively interesting subject we can find thousands of Web pages, tens—if not hundreds—of books, and article after article. How do we filter all this information? How do we process all this information? Core values and principles provide one mechanism for processing and filtering information. They steer us in the direction of what is more, or less, important. They help us make product decisions and evaluate development practices. "
23 " APM's core purpose of creating innovative new products and services means dealing with constant technological and competitive change, generating novel ideas, and continually reducing product development schedules. "
24 " The quality of results from any collaboration effort are driven by trust and respect "
25 " When project leaders focus on delivery, they add value to projects. When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add overhead. "
26 " Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model. "
27 " If you want to innovate, you have to iterate! "
28 " The feature delivery approach helps define a workable interface between customers and product developers. "
29 " The agile value "Delivering Value over Meeting Constraints" provides a focus for rethinking how we measure performance on projects. "
30 " Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews—product, technical, process, team—is also self-correcting. "