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

Well said that person, I also am in deep with code when time permits, harder and harder the more responsibility that comes my way, but will always be a coder at heart..

musings from a c-level...

Scott Worley
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sandy 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:18 PM
  Subject: RE: [xpAdoption] Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really need to know about XP?


  > My approaches to recieving and inviting questions: 
  > I have used the Management By Walking Around(MBWA),
  > until it seemed to some folks that I was hovering,
  > so I backed off.  In other companies that was the
  > most successful form.  I would never ask "how is
  > project x" or even "how are you doing?".  

  Over my career, as I moved from developer to project
  lead, to project manager to VP to C-level, I too fell
  into that trap. It was only recently, as a C-level
  manager, that I realized that I needed to keep my
  fingers in the code to be relevant.

  Today, even though I carry the title and the
  responsability, I sit with the developers in
  cube-ville. I write code more than 50% of the time. I
  peer program, write unit tests, do it all. 

  And you know what? Garnering status has never been
  easier. I can look as cvs and determine status. I can
  conduct code reviews and see velocity. All the "hard"
  metrics disappeared once I got involved again. 

  As a software manager I think it's hard to run a
  successful software company and not remain a developer
  ... not just at heart. 

  -Sandy



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