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

My CEO and CTO both described it this way to me (I'm 
VP R&D). 

"I don't care how you do it. But I need to know enough
about it, so that when I explain it to the
board/investors/analysts, I can talk intelligently
about it."

-Sandy

--- "Scott Worley <[email protected]>"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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