Picture tweeted by David J. Anderson made me look it up. I like it.
- There are no best practices, only practices that fit best.
- To optimize the whole you must sub-optimize the parts.
- Bad metrics are worse than no metrics.
- Relationships precede process.
- Relationships outlive transactions.
- Don’t confuse documentation with reality.
- Before you can be strategic you have to be competent.
- Big solutions that work start as small solutions that work.
- Customers are external. Internal customers aren’t.
- Don’t run IT as a business, run it in a business like way.
- There are no IT projects.
- Digest with intestines, think with brain.
- Every employee is irreplaceable.
Keep the Joint Running—A Manifesto for 21st Century Information Technology