How do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?
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Contracting in an Agile Environment
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What have you done, what are you going to do, what blockers?
Hardly cramping your style surely? Access to stakeholders or more likely proxies, daily and not set role definition bar the scrum master...
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Are you sure its an agile environment? I sounds like the frequent case of a micro managed environment with an agile front.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostHow do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Be the PM in an agile project.
Sorted.
(and if the team is involved in timeboxing, I'm not sort how it can be too micro managed...)"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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My inkling is that its a BI project so micro managing is more I want this data not that, that doesn't look right are you sure the calculation is ok....Originally posted by cojak View PostBe the PM in an agile project.
Sorted.
(and if the team is involved in timeboxing, I'm not sort how it can be too micro managed...)
No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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But that's not agile that's just micro managing...Originally posted by eek View PostMy inkling is that its a BI project so micro managing is more I want this data not that, that doesn't look right are you sure the calculation is ok....
No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Count yourself lucky. I've just been told I'm going to Canada in two weeks(for a week) to meet the stakeholders & gather requirements for a new product and to then review the inputs, outputs, processes and GUI with the client.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostHow do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?
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Yeah, that's the official line. The truth is we're holding a party and need to get rid of you for a few days.Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostCount yourself lucky. I've just been told I'm going to Canada in two weeks(for a week) to meet the stakeholders & gather requirements for a new product and to then review the inputs, outputs, processes and GUI with the client.
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