RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? - Extension from Re: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business

"Laurent Bossavit" <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:03:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming.adoption
Message-ID <3E515C29.14844.2B0F10F@localhost>
> [>] We have a team of all managers, it's called senior management.

In what ways does this group of people behave as a team ?

> > and i've seen technical managers get in the way of the
> > developers.
>
> Similarly, managers who "get in the way" hardly deserve the title.
> 
> [>] In what ways would a manager get in the way?

It was Pat who formulated this observation originally, so he may have 
better answers than mine. But I've seen several ways. Most recently, 
my former CEO mandated that a project under his "leadership" was to 
start without using CVS "because it's only a very short one-person 
project, and so no version control is needed".

Cheers,

-[Morendil]-
Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.



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