Re: Responsibility

Hi Kent,

Kent Beck wrote:

> > > I recently had the weird experience of having a VP of
> > > Marketing "check out" of an XP effort that all 100
> > > 100 other people in the organization
> > > seemed eager to begin.
> >
> > What was the VP's role in the effort?  Do you know his
> > reasons for checking out?
>
> Don't know. Don't know. His (to me irrational) argument was that
> marketing is an outward looking activity. He wanted to be responsible
> for positioning and competitive analysis, but he wanted product
> management to be development's responsibility. To me this gives far too
> much muscle to the development organization.

Do you think this might have been a rejection of the "trade off scope
instead of quality" argument?

Bill


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