[Lecture] Good Manager, Bad Manager : The Process Czar

Extraits de The Manager’s Path

Process czars may be obsessed with agile, Kanban, scrum, lean, or even waterfall methods. They may have a very precise idea of how on-call should work, how code reviews must be done, or how the release process has to operate.

On m’a appris assez tôt que les livres et les méthodes servaient de cadre de référence mais que si on fait exactement comme dans le livre c’est qu’on a loupé quelque chose.

If you are honest and make it clear that it’s safe to fail and to be imperfect, that’s often enough to get your process czar to relax a little bit and let some ambiguity in.

Je ne l’envisageais pas ainsi avant ma lecture mais c’est assez vrai.

Je préfère l’initiative au mode singe savant. L’initiative implique l’échec. Si je veux de l’initiative l’échec est forcément acceptable.

Un process qui rend l’échec inacceptable c’est souvent un process qui coupe l’initiative ou l’adaptation locale.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan