Self-organizing burn-down isn’t enough
David Anderson blogged this humorous piece on why programmers shouldn’t have project management responsibility.
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give the kid a silly lolly and ask him to shut up!! lol seriously i dont mean otherwise when say that.. in lot of of cases a programmer with some PM vision (keep customer happy) is more likely to get the right good out.
aby it was indeed a nice article to point out.
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sandeep
April 22, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Spoken like a true cowboy Sandy :P
I think the point that David’s trying to make relates more to the information available to each individual not their ability. In the example, the waiter(BA/PM) should have communicated the customer’s needs better and it might’ve been cheaper to satisfy the customer. Instead they choose a course of action that was based on assumptions by the chef (Developer) resulting in a more expensive outcome that didn’t even satisfy the customer. Everyone loses.
Abhijit
April 22, 2005 at 1:09 pm