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

Allergic to empowerment!  Nice. That's exactly the message I got from 
50-page MS Project plans. They seemed to say nobody could be trusted to 
work more than a few minutes without guidance. Team members joked (darkly) 
that they had to check the plan to see when they could use the bathroom. 
I'm finding short iterations are helping our team immensely. The managers 
have a feel for what's in an iteration and can trust the team to run at 
least that long without excruciating detail.

At 06:00 AM 2/9/03 -0500, you wrote:


>It may be just my own personality defects coming out, but I believe that
>command-and-control organizations are allergic to agile methods, because
>they are allergic to empowerment. In my consulting, I would say that truly
>empowering managers are in a very small minority, surrounded on one side by
>command and control managers, and on the other by hands off then fire
>people managers.



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