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I have observed many organizations introducing Scrum with the expectation that leadership teams would get more visibility into teams, and be able
to
pinpoint teams that need help.
Unified reporting and drilling down
to
team-level priorities was one of the benefits Skype’s leadership also saw with the move
to
Scrum.
The Wrong-Order-O-Meter was used
to
identify teams that were working on items in the wrong order, according
to
the organization-wide backlog that the product owner organisation had specified.”
We’ve seen how companies at various stages tend
to
run projects with different approaches, and how Big Tech generally does not mandate a single approach, though big firms have lots of organizational support
to
make this process work.
This person decided
to
move the whole organization
to
a NoEstimates method in the first few months of their tenure.
The following weeks and months were chaos, and the organization reverted
to
doing what it did beforehand.
It’s more work
to
teach someone
to
fish, than it is
to
catch a fish for them.
My approach
to
project management has been
to
coach and mentor members of my team
to
become project leads themselves.
Directing – telling people exactly how
to
do something – is micromanaging when they can do it themselves.
Choose your approaches depending on whether you direct, mentor or coach and give space
to
people or teams, based on their capabilities as well.
Over time, you should be doing little
to
no directing.
But you might need
to
start with this.
The fewer people you need
to
make decisions, the faster you can make them.
If an engineer only needs
to
talk
to
an engineer
to
decide, that decision will be faster than if the engineer needs
to
talk
to
their project manager, who talks
to
another project manager, who talks
to
an engineer, who talks to… you get it.
However, if you roll out project management methodologies that add heavy processes for the sake of reporting, then you’ll get more process, lower trust, and people gaming whatever reports you’re trying
to
produce.
Consultants will be biased
to
deliver easy-to-measure results because this is the simplest way
to
prove their value.
Having a coffee with a peer at a competitor can be a great professional, and networking investment, not
to
mention one that may inspire you.
Some of the best engineers would rather quit than be micromanaged, especially when the job market is hot, and it’s so easy
to
switch jobs.
A relevant quote from a response
to
my survey: “Recently, C-level executives have started
to
mandate the ways of working for all teams (everyone needs
to
follow the same methodology).
Thanks
to
Adriaan, Alexandra, Alex, David, and Steve for their help in reviewing this article.
And it's truly a great honor
to
have the opportunity
to
come
to
this stage twice; I'm extremely grateful.
I have been blown away by this conference, and I want
to
thank all of you for the many nice comments about what I had
to
say the other night.
Now I have
to
take off my shoes or boots
to
get on an airplane!
I'll tell you one quick story
to
illustrate what that's been like for me.
It was dinnertime, and we started looking for a place
to
eat.
We got
to
Exit 238, Lebanon, Tennessee.
She took our order, and then went
to
the couple in the booth next
to
us, and she lowered her voice so much, I had
to
really strain
to
hear what she was saying.
The very next day, continuing the totally true story, I got on a G-V
to
fly
to
Africa
to
make a speech in Nigeria, in the city of Lagos, on the topic of energy.
I gave my speech, then went back out
to
the airport
to
fly back home.
I woke up, they opened the door, I went out
to
get some fresh air, and I looked, and there was a man running across the runway.
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