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

On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 11:09:15 AM, George Dinwiddie wrote:

>> Perhaps you might: Do good things for them. Treat them well. Promote
>> them. Let it be known that they are pleasing you.

> This can also be construed to indicate that these people are the 
> favorites.  Which they are, I guess.  It just seems that it may be 
> necessary to be explicit as to *why* they are the favorites, and that 
> anyone can join that group.  People are funny and often won't make that 
> leap on their own.

Yes. I might have done well to have emphasized it, as I did in a related
posting:

> Surely he must. I've had some good luck by sitting down with the individual
> and making it clear to him that I value flexibility and that he will be
> hearing about it in his annual review as well as day to day.
> 
> And I would be sending the same message to the whole team, of course.

Good catch.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
He who will not apply new remedies must expect old evils.  -- Francis Bacon


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