Michele Zoromski - “People make it happen”.
Bobby Norton - “Data makes it happen”. Data from and about our systems provides us with facts from which we can make informed engineering decisions based on principled arguments. We gain the means to share results from our work organizing people, process, and products and can learn from one another in search of global optimizations to common problems. Without data, we're left with ad hoc approaches, anecdotes, and all too often HiPPO's...the Highest Paid Person's Opinions.
David Holst - “Culture makes it happen”.
Jim Hummell - “Management support makes it happen”.