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Contracting in an Agile Environment

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    Contracting in an Agile Environment

    How do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?
    Coffee's for closers

    #2
    What have you done, what are you going to do, what blockers?

    Hardly cramping your style surely? Access to stakeholders or more likely proxies, daily and not set role definition bar the scrum master...

    Seems liberal enough to me.
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      #3
      Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
      How do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?
      Are you sure its an agile environment? I sounds like the frequent case of a micro managed environment with an agile front.
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        #4
        Be the PM in an agile project.

        Sorted.

        (and if the team is involved in timeboxing, I'm not sort how it can be too micro managed...)
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          #5
          Originally posted by cojak View Post
          Be the PM in an agile project.

          Sorted.

          (and if the team is involved in timeboxing, I'm not sort how it can be too micro managed...)
          My inkling is that its a BI project so micro managing is more I want this data not that, that doesn't look right are you sure the calculation is ok....

          No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues.
          merely at clientco for the entertainment

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            #6
            Originally posted by eek View Post
            My inkling is that its a BI project so micro managing is more I want this data not that, that doesn't look right are you sure the calculation is ok....

            No amount of timeboxing is going to fix those issues.
            But that's not agile that's just micro managing...
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
              How do you go about reconciling the need, as a contractor, for less direction and contol with the agile management method which almost boils down to micro managing?
              Count yourself lucky. I've just been told I'm going to Canada in two weeks(for a week) to meet the stakeholders & gather requirements for a new product and to then review the inputs, outputs, processes and GUI with the client.
              What happens in General, stays in General.
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                #8
                Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
                Count yourself lucky. I've just been told I'm going to Canada in two weeks(for a week) to meet the stakeholders & gather requirements for a new product and to then review the inputs, outputs, processes and GUI with the client.
                Yeah, that's the official line. The truth is we're holding a party and need to get rid of you for a few days.
                "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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