Re:

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 3:29:45 PM, Mary Poppendieck wrote:

> If you feel responsible for the overall business value you deliver, then
> 'customer on site' doesn't quit tell you enough about how to go about
> it. I think that when the development team owns the responsibility for
> delivering business value, and for uncovering what that really means,
> and does not delegate this to 'the customer' (whoever that is), then you
> have a dynamite approach. 

I would agree that the dev team SHARES the responsibility. The XP model,
however, states clearly that the business decisions belong to the business
people. In XP, the dev team does what the customer SAYS, not what they somehow
magically know that the customer SHOULD SAY. Instead, the XP team would help the
customer learn what he really wants, what he really should say. Then, when he
says it, the team does it.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Wisdom begins when we discover the difference between
"That makes no sense" and "I don't understand". --Mary Doria Russell


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