RE: Re: Sticking point

Bill,

> > The purpose of this list, if I understand it, is to step
> > outside that little bubble and deal with things as they
> > are.
>
> ..as they are outside that little bubble.  From inside the bubble
> there are
> technical and business issues.  From outside the bubble, to a manager of
> managers, there are technical and business issues too.  Everything inside
> the bubble is technical.  The stuff outside the bubble is
> business.  Bubbles within bubbles.  Patterns.

Except of course that it's not true. The bubble contains both
business and technical things. The outside contains both business
and technical things. Unless your bubble is different from mine.

> > I wonder if there is something more operating here. Why is it
> > hard - or undesirable - for some folks on this list to hear
> > the meanings behind some of the XP slang? Everyone seems to
> > be pretty smart and uses words well and I expect there are
> > many people with more diverse exposure to differing ways of
> > speaking than me. So why is this an obstacle particularly?
> >
> > Bill, if you don't mind, I'll ask you to answer in the first
> > person: why is this a hard switch for you. Others, if you
> > find it hard, can you try to tell me why?
>
> I find it hard because I'm working as a surrogate for others who don't use
> those terms.  As a manager of managers, I didn't use those terms.  As a
> consultant to managers of managers, I don't use those terms.  The use of
> those terms causes a switching problem for me.  I have to switch
> out of the
> listening mode, into a translating mode, and and then back into the
> listening mode.  Not impossible, but problematic.  Later I'll
> have a bigger
> potential problem, the more I get used to the slang, if I don't
> remember to
> do the translation as I talk about XP.  I'd much prefer not to get used to
> using it.

I suppose I'm finding it hard to play along with the role of you
as a surrogate CxO. I'll try harder. Frankly, I've never had this
problem of using the language of one domain in another by mistake,
but if I had it, I'm imagining it would be an easy thing to fix
when it happened. You know best what works for you, so I'll try
to keep it in mind.

Charlie Poole
[email protected]
www.pooleconsulting.com
www.charliepoole.org



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