Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW

[Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Margaret Alston
<diamondvapor5 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>  He called it "visibility," or "transperency." I called it micromanaging gone wild."

I will point out that whether or not you feel micromanaged is a
function of the manager, not whether you are using Agile or any other
process.

I left a job where we were using waterfall when my manager implemented
a system of twelve milestones for each topic.  Not each release, not
each deliverable, not each Help project (there were more than 100),
but for every single blessed TOPIC that I wrote.  The User Guide I was
working on had more than 1,000 individual topics, and she expected me
to track each one through a dozen separate milestones on a daily
basis.

That's what I call micromanagement gone wild.

And here's a link to a blog that I wish I had the guts to send to that
manager.  But she'd know it was from me.

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/letter-to-micromanagers/
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