Who are we trying to talk to?

I had a longer post on this topic, but it got erased.  I will resum 
my ideas and further elaborate if needed or asked.

I think we are addressing the wrong people in this discussion.  From 
what I have seen in large corportations, and described here, most 
high level decisions makers delegate the day-to-day activites and 
decisions of execution to other people.  This seems like this is a 
good idea for most organizations since you really do not want the CEO 
proofing user manuals and restting margins, do you?  That is not the 
job of a CEO.  Therefore, why are we asking these high level people 
to be involved with a decision and activity that the high level 
peoples normally would delegate to someone else?  

I feel that if the idea is to get XP-concepts adopted in larger 
organizations, perhaps we need to talk with the people who feel the 
real pain.  The hihg level people are NOT the ones feeling the pain 
of a sputtering, nonresponsive software development process.  I 
figure the people in pain are the actual people doing the work or 
those trying to remove obstacles and providing resources to the 
workers.  Why then are we not trying to address the actual people 
doing the work or the managers responsible for the workers's 
results?  To try and bring XP-concepts from the top seems silly and 
an unnecessarily tortured path to get to the real people we might 
want to communicate with.  



    





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