Comments on: Agile Process

By: Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:54:00 +0000

It is possible for the PM to select the people, if they already work at the organization. If they are new hires, it’s silly for the PM to select the people. The people should be selecting themselves.

If they had the wrong people, it could be not *just* a skill fit, but a cultural fit problem. Some of the people on the project, possibly even all of them, didn’t fit the culture of the organization, and could not deliver.

By: Parajao

Parajao — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:42:52 +0000

One can be amazed for the strange things that happen…here our PM is choosing people :/

By: Manuel Palacio (@manuel_palacio)

Manuel Palacio (@manuel_palacio) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:32:55 +0000

I hope the PM is not choosing people in any case

By: gregfyoung

gregfyoung — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:02:44 +0000

@Dan that sounds like a situation where they couldn’t do anything else. Its like the famous “no bid contracts” in Iraq and Afghanistan that people were up in a roar about. When there is only one or two companies in the world that can do the job bidding becomes silly

By: Dan North

Dan North — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:48:52 +0000

It might seem expensive at the time but it can have a big strategic pay-off. Think of it as stop-the-line at an organisational scale. Toyota famously went into their suppliers’ factories, rented factory floor space from them and had their own staff teach their suppliers Lean supply. They had realised one of their bottlenecks was batching and starvation of supplies, which was outside of their control. They are effectively teaching their competitors how to be more competitive, but still get the bigger pay-off.

Of course the supplier has got to want to become more competitive, which speaks to your comment about government sector

By: Parajao

Parajao — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:24:46 +0000

I won’t miss them.

By: Parajao

Parajao — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:24:11 +0000

It always ends up with right people. Peolple writes and uses software; there’s something funny in having people central in software concerns.
P.S.: I really like the way you rise new perspectives on problems. Thank you.

By: gregfyoung

gregfyoung — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:21:52 +0000

@parajao also look for videos of Linda’s talk (this is what she was discussing).

By: gregfyoung

gregfyoung — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:21:27 +0000

@parajao you need the right people before even looking at it

By: Parajao

Parajao — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:20:03 +0000

One of the problem is to convince the Project Manager that Agile processes really improve the quality and reduce the costs (to say a few of benefits) of software development; if PM is not really convinced who will choose the right people?