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

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:57:50 AM, Steve Ropa wrote:

> In the long version of the story, that is what I tried, eventually. The
> "unattended approach" was my first attempt, based on an experience at a
> previous company. During the iteration planning and task selection
> process, I had found that the team members were really reluctant to sign
> up for anything, and that discussions started going round and round and
> round. So I said "I'm going to step out of the room. Go ahead and sign up
> for the tasks, and once you have all of this week's velocity accounted
> for, we're all done." This worked really well there, and I foolishly
> assumed it would work for everyone. In the case above, it was after
> walking everyone through the estimation and sign up that I was asked to
> please just assign the work.

Yes. As I mentioned in a prior response, I think my answer would be along
the lines of "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

I would be tempted to assign the work in the most stupid possible way, to
show them that there's something worse than figuring it out themselves. But
maybe that's why no one likes me.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
  --  John Maxwell


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