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All very nice but based on my 5 year of project management, I'm fairly confident to say that organizing work like this will only be successful with a lot of luc
by mariani 16y ago
All very nice but based on my 5 year of project management, I'm fairly confident to say that organizing work like this will only be successful with a lot of luck. Every project or every product that gets developed has a moment where "things go wrong"(tm) and having external constraints (like deadlines, backlogs, ...) reduces the risk of failure ... a lot. I'd only try the approach from the presentation if your team is made up out of very disciplined, skilled people with the full benefits and responsibilities of the outcome.
- lucisferre 16y agoI'm fairly certain their team (or any team like this) has little or no need for a project manager so I doubt they would need to worry about whether or not you would try it. I realize this comes across a bit snarky but I honestly couldn't think of a better way to say this. I often find people in project management who have little or no trust in the people who actually do the work and that seems to guide their decisions about how the team should be 'managed' or how the work should be planned. I also find that while deadlines and backlogs seem like something intuitive, in the end the belief that they really have a tangible effect on outcomes seems to be largely anecdotal. Sure it's often a necessary requirement to work with many organizations, but I rarely see any of those organizations actually backing up their process with measurable results.