Re: Re: Digest Number 130

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 3:52:54 PM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

> This is just what I've experienced. I don't know what it means. What it 
> /encourages/ me to do, however, is never take business responsibility 
> for delivering software with programmers that aren't /mine/. What's left 
> is what I'm terming the Business interface: stories, priority, release 
> schedule, cost per iteration, and the like.

Good story, and I understand. I might, for myself, say something rather
similar: never take business responsibility for delivering software with a
process that isn't entirely mine, including hiring/firing.

Of course we can't always get that deal. But otherwise we're talking about
responsibility without matching authority -- and that's Known Bad
Territory.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Adapt, improvise, overcome. 
  --Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Heartbreak Ridge)


 

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