Re: Bottom Up,Top Down or somewhere in the middle?

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 9:06:53 PM, Pierre Boudreau wrote:

> My question to this group(yes, there is a question in here somewhere), is
> this: When XP is successfully introduced into a company, does it usually
> come from the top down, the bottum up or from somewhere in the
> middle(project managers, technical leads or software architects for a
> particular project)?

There are certainly lots of projects who have just done XPish things and
found some success. For installation company wide, it has always taken some
top-down work, and in the cases I can think of off-hand, it was driven from
the top.

The top-down approach is fraught. As you comment, there is a lot of power
embodied in the senior developers (and a lot of inertia even in the junior
ones). It makes no sense to do a commanded imposition of an emergent
process.

So top-down is very important, I think, but difficult to do well. I suppose
that's why they make the big  bucks.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
If not now, when?  -- The Talmud


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