Re: [extremeprogramming] Practices [was: Origin of term "standup"?]

Hi John,

> On Nov 24, 2019, at 12:42 PM, John Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In all seriousness. The last sentence I quoted defines my working
> environment; I am a _developer_, not a coach, and I have never had the
> luxury of having any coach, good, bad, or indifferent, available on any
> team or "team" that I've worked on.

Yes ... which is why my note you quoted was against advocating against good and valuable practices.
> 
> The received wisdom (from when I've asked this question before, on this
> list) seems to be that  I must not advocate for any practices, because
> as an experienced and senior developer, any advocacy on my part is far
> too likely to be felt as coercion by other team members.

I don't think I've seen that. I am exceedingly opposed to coercion, but that just means that advocating for things needs to be done with a bit of style, gentleness, curiousity ... things I'm at best only slightly good at.
> 
> Since I am not, in fact, the ideal coach, who can change the team's work
> habits with a gesture and perhaps a suitably insightful head tilt, am I
> reduced to simply keeping my mouth shut and hoping for the best? What
> happened to "Change your work environment, or change your work
> environment."?


Of course you're supposed to work to change the environment, just exactly as any coach would. I am wondering who suggested otherwise, and what they really meant. I have a feeling that you may have misread something ...

Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries.com <http://ronjeffries.com/>
Wisdom begins when we learn the difference between "that makes no sense" and "I don't understand". -- Mary Doria Russell


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