RE: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really need to know about XP?

Scott,

What happens, though, when those upper managers are asking for budget
figures based on what's going to be delivered over the period of a year?  I
suppose many organizations couldn't provide an accurate figure regardless of
methodology, but a group using XP at least would answer, "Well that
depends."  That isn't something that would have "the suits" opening their
pockets, so I feel that at least a little education is required.

Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
http://www.mayford.ca


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Worley <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:44 PM
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> Subject: [xpAdoption] Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really
> need to know about XP?
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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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