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To Clarify
> 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.
In most of the companies I have worked in the projects have been
pretty large, and have at a minimum 2-3 teams 4-7 people, in these
teams the team leads are the ones who know the real dev process, and
the PM may or may not know all of the detail, they rely on the Teams
leads to give dates/times, for example in a recent project we had 5
teams each with dynamic leads (a dynamic lead means a that a teaem
leader is the person with the best skills in the target area of
development for the current feature/sprint/story; thus the team
leader is always changing, the PM is informed by this person on
progress and timescalling, not the most efficient way of doing things
but the motivation and shared learning is very impressive, the only
messy but is the reporting structure as always). Anyway each of these
teams had a lead and then a Project Coordinator above them who used
the feedback ffrom the various leads to calculate new timelines and
cost against progress reports (used to show real costs of development
against the planned progress and real progress, can also be used to
extrapolate (over time) a forcast of future development and cost for
the senior managers). In this case the Project Co-ordinator we used
knew the prinicples/practice of scrum and fundamental knowledge of XP
stories, how the rest of XP was used was pretty much irrelevant to
his task, to senior management he extols virtues of SCRUM and project
visability (if stubborn management he can create gantts of current
workloads/backlogs (stories), and planned releases/sprints/product
backlogs).
phew...
sorry for the very long run-on-sentance-thingy above.
SW
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