Re: XP/XC and overcommitment

On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 5:12:06 PM, Dale Emery <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do any of you see XP helping managers who are:
> 1. Fighting many fires.
> 2. Taking on many obligations.
> 3. Working extra hours to fight all fires and meet all obligations.
> 4. Sacrificing self and home life to meet work obligations.

Here are a few ideas ...

Planning game allows them to relate what they want to do to what they /can/ do,
and to allocate their work in alignment with what they can accomplish, to
maximum perceived value.

Princples of effective communication will focus less on things like memos and
more on things like being with people and forging agreement.

Simplicity will focus on reducing the overhead of work and life.

Feedback will focus on finding out earlier how things are going, so that there
will be fewer fires, many, if not most of which are due to situations let go too
long.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
The practices are not XP. They are a path to XP.


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