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Hi all, a slightly diffrent tack of approach on the issue of XP
Adoption.
Do the high level managers in a company need to know about Agile this
or XP that?
In my opinion (I am a C-Level Manager) NO, what they/we want is
results if its due to a new process that the dev team or indeed any
other team is using, thier team lead/PM should know about it, but
above that it is not necessary. A PM can request resource from
higher management and in most cases the justification is of the
standard Time/Cost/Resource type. A PM should act as a consultant to
the teams they ENABLE and the management they provide a service for.
I have worked at various levels in development over the past 10+
years, and in most cases the dev team I have been in, HAVE NOT TOLD
the PM what exact process they follow :) including myself.
Normally the time spent trying to educate people on process, is time
we should have been coding, politics are fine when there is time.
As a final note, I am not saying Senior management should not know
what is being done process wise, just not in a low level and somewhat
evangelistic way (btw: I am very evangelistic about agile process not
just in development)
Scott Worley
CTO, Speaker, Consultant, Trainer, ENABLER of Process.
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