“Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.”

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!

Software engineering economics.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.