Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW

Subject: Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
From: Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:25:15 -0500

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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References:
Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW: From: Bill Swallow
Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW: From: Margaret Alston

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