In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered. - Gerald M. Weinberg

The biggest new factor for determining how we judge the quality of code is the economic factor. A program that sells, and makes profits, is obviously better than one that doesn’t.

Linear models tend to define relationships in terms of roles rather than people: the boss rather than the person actually exerting influence. The organic model tends to define relationships in terms of one unique person to another unique person.

Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.