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This is a sure sign of a broken PM group (and product dev team in general). Great teams are made of equal parts PM, Eng, Design and a group of folks who can act
by bdehaaff 13y ago
This is a sure sign of a broken PM group (and product dev team in general). Great teams are made of equal parts PM, Eng, Design and a group of folks who can actually position and sell a product.
- fleitz 13y agoFor sure, which is the fundamental reason why kanban doesn't work. If you have good teams basically all you need is a thin layer of process that prevents total chaos, kanban is a good fit for that, but most teams implement kanban in a cargo cult manner. I've worked on sales driven teams where I fundamentally trusted the sales guy because when he said if you make feature X I can sell it for $Y dollars and we made bank doing that. Conversely I've worked on teams where everyone was trying to avoid being fired and would only make decisions that were defensible, eg. company X is doing Y so lets do Y, resulting in the usual follow the leader failure.
- bdehaaff 13y agoYes. I think they are related to the "scrumdamentalists" who I have written about in the past as well. See -- The Holy Scrum War - http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-holy-scrum-war/ http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-holy-scrum-war/