Comments on: “It’s Not Your Fault” http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/07/its-not-your-fault.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: abby, the hacker chick blog http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/07/its-not-your-fault.html/comment-page-1#comment-17641 abby, the hacker chick blog Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:55:47 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8468#comment-17641 I was recently in a Scrum training class where we had a discussion about the agile manifesto principals and, specifically, which one we thought would be toughest to make work in our organizations. About 90% of us said "Customer collaboration" would be toughest to implement. Now, to be clear, most of us in the training develop custom software. <b>Custom software</b> and the biggest challenge for us in moving to agile will be to collaborate with the customer. All I could think was, "My God, how has it become acceptable for us to develop custom applications for customers without collaborating with them?!" I was recently in a Scrum training class where we had a discussion about the agile manifesto principals and, specifically, which one we thought would be toughest to make work in our organizations. About 90% of us said “Customer collaboration” would be toughest to implement. Now, to be clear, most of us in the training develop custom software.

Custom software and the biggest challenge for us in moving to agile will be to collaborate with the customer. All I could think was, “My God, how has it become acceptable for us to develop custom applications for customers without collaborating with them?!”

]]> By: Kathleen http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2008/07/its-not-your-fault.html/comment-page-1#comment-17543 Kathleen Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:14:13 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8468#comment-17543 I'm amazed you found blice (cute!) worth buying. I never can to the extent I've been thinking (for several years) that I should start manufacturing some. Also, I find the defintion of blouses has blurred. The way I learned it, a blouse is dressy, it doesn't have buttons running down the front; the latter being a shirt (sportswear casual). I’m amazed you found blice (cute!) worth buying. I never can to the extent I’ve been thinking (for several years) that I should start manufacturing some. Also, I find the defintion of blouses has blurred. The way I learned it, a blouse is dressy, it doesn’t have buttons running down the front; the latter being a shirt (sportswear casual).

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