1. "At the end of the day, your job is to minimize output, and maximize outcome and impact."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
2. "Your job isn’t to build more software faster: it’s to maximize the outcome and impact you get from what you choose to build."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
3. "Globo.com is good at it. That’s not because the company is faster than everyone else — sure, it’s fast, but it’s not that fast. It’s because it’s smart about doing less."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
4. "There’s always more to build than we have time or resources to build — always."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
5. "Design by community is not design by committee…design is never democratic.["
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
6. "Half a baked cake may not be enough to feed a wedding party, but it’s enough to taste and leave everyone looking forward to the rest of the cake."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
7. "I had to work hard to figure out the least I could build to make people happy."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
8. "Great art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci"
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
9. "The best solutions come from collaboration between the people with the problems to solve and the people who can solve them."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story
10. "Prioritize specific business goals, customers, and users, and then their goals, before prioritizing features."
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Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story