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

"Dale Emery <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:09:37 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming.adoption
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Steve,

> He sees these folks being moved in a direction that he feels
> invalidates his own "primacy".

I can understand that.  That was a real challenge for me when I first
became a manager.  Before then, I'd been heavily praised, appreciated,
and rewarded for my technical performance.  In fact, that's why my
manager made me a manager (not a good reason for making me a manager,
but that's what happened).

So I strongly believed in my "primacy."  Further, and probably worse,
I strongly *identified* with my "primacy."  Having that perspective, I
managed in a way that I no longer see as effective.

"Primacy," real or imagined, was very hard for me to give up.

Dale



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