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

Ron,

There's yet another organization. The development team works for a
parallel organization. The communication up to the development team's
org is needed as well as communication up through the customer's
organization.

This is typical of a matrixed org (like ours) where the teams are
temporary, but the functional orgs are permanent like the customer orgs.
This is the role of the Program Office - the keep all the comm channels
opens and flowing. 

Glen B. Alleman 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Jeffries [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [xpAdoption] Do C-Level managers, and business drivers
really
> need to know about XP?
> 
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:29:55 PM, Dan Rawsthorne wrote:
> 
> > I think that this visibility to upper management is specifically the
job
> > of the CustomerTeam. The higher the level of ceremony in the
> > organization, the "thicker" the CustomerTeam. They insulate the
team's
> > developers from this ceremony (explicitly stated in Scrum), and so
must
> > provide it themselves.
> 
> This is often true, but I suggest, not always. For example, in a
typical
> IT
> situation, the customer team and the programer team are quite often
from
> separate organizations. In that case, it seems prudent to consider
having
> the programmer team doing their own communication to their leadership
(and
> of course everyone copied on everything).
> 
> Is it not?
> 
> Ron 


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