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

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 4:23:52 PM, Steve Ropa wrote:

> How does one who intends to be "empowering" avoid being seen as
> abdicating? I have tried very hard to be an empowering manager at my
> current place of employment. During annual review time, I got almost
> universal feedback that I was "not directing them enough". This feedback
> was from my team members, not my boss. Of course, Rapid Feedback would
> have helped that tremendously, but I couldn't sell anyone on it! :-)

Of course not. But now you have feedback. So ask them. Meanwhile, I'd ask
you, for starters ...

How are you assigning work? What ways do you use to let people know what
you'll see as success? What are your styles of offering help? What are your
approaches to receiving, and even inviting questions? What ways do you use
to be sure that people have opportunity to ask questions and get the
direction they need?

> I guess my point is that the tricky part is finding the balance. Even
> then, somebody will come back with the idea that you either abdicated too
> much, or controlled too much.

Yeah, well.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Talent determines how fast you get good, not how good you get.  -- Richard Gabriel


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