Contracting in an Agile Environment

[Freamon]

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.

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.

[MarillionFan]

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?

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.

[cojak]

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....

No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues.

But that's not agile that's just micro managing...

[eek]

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...)

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....

No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues.

[cojak]

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...)

[eek]

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?

Are you sure its an agile environment? I sounds like the frequent case of a micro managed environment with an agile front.

[Notascooby]

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...

Seems liberal enough to me.

[Spacecadet]

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?