In those heady years, when people like us thought “the internet routes around <I forget - what was it supposed to route around? Something it didn’t, anyway.>” we thought we might route around project management / middle management.

We bonded with marketing, not with middle management. In our hubris, we failed to realize what value management brought, and we *definitely* failed to appreciate what power it had.

Oops. (2/2)

1
Share
Share on Mastodon
Share on Twitter
Share on Facebook
Share on Linkedin
Hen Gymro Heb Wlad

@marick Sounds plausible to me.

OTOH middle management is traditionally adept at maximising its own role in any organisation. I worked on public sector IT projects that adopted Agile (allegedly). I recall attending daily stand-ups that lasted 45 minutes (midmorning for max disruption) with 30 people, of whom at most 10 were directly involved in development. So it may be true that early Agile could have engaged more with managers. But I wonder if the result would really have been very different?

2
8mo
Replies