I did a very enjoyable live coding presentation using cyber-dojo at
XP Days Ukraine last week. At the start I asked the XP question and, as usual, the audience told me lots about the XP practices (such as pair-programming) but struggled to name the four XP values, and failed to name
courage.
On more than one occasion, while consulting or training at a customer's site trying to help explain and convey "an agile mindset", I've been told
you need to tell this to our managers
If I did tell their managers I'm pretty sure I know what would happen.
Can you guess?
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I think their managers would say
you need to tell this to our managers
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There is a story in one of the Tom Demarco or Tom Peters books (I can't remember which of them it is) in which they tell a so ilar story, and how they pushes their PR and marketing people to push them higher and higher up the management chain to do just that. And yes, it is recursive, upwards.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you succeed in getting to the top, CEO or Prime Minister I think you would be told: I have my board, customers, voters above me
>> And if you succeed in getting to the top, CEO or Prime Minister I think you would be told: I have my board, customers, voters above me
ReplyDeleteEither that, or: "I know, right? If only I could convince my employees!"