Re: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? - Extension from Re: [xpAdopti

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 3:32:33 PM, Dale Emery wrote:

> We did that at my last company, and still had lots of trouble.  A 
> big reason for that, I think, was that we lacked a "stop eating 
> when full" rule.  Each person was assigned way more stuff than 
> they could do.  Also, our projects were highly matrixed.  One 
> person leads a project, supported by many people from many other 
> organizations, each of whom leads and participates on several 
> other projects.  The combination of highly matrixed and 
> overcommitted set up a deadly dynamic:  lots of progress early 
> on.  Near zero progress as deadlines neared.

Why would that be the dynamic? Were people not overloaded at the beginning?

It is just this situation that caused me to write the "Petition the King"
paper. As an individual programmer, maintaining a king's list might be a
good way to report. "OK, here's what I've been asked to do. Here's what's
going to get done. These aren't."

http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/PetitionTheKing.htm

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
"How do I get to XP?"  "Practice, man, practice."


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