(b)right people for the job
In a rebuttal to one of Steve Dennings posts, Bruno Collet said on "PM Hut" that "Agile is only for stars", that you need very qualified people to be able to work in an agile fashion. This is an argument I often encounter, when I present agile or stoosian ideas to managers. They feel that their employees are either not skilled or bright enough (something Denning addresses http://onforb.es/HQ8i6J) or just don't have the ...more »
In a rebuttal to one of Steve Dennings posts, Bruno Collet said on "PM Hut" that "Agile is only for stars", that you need very qualified people to be able to work in an agile fashion.
This is an argument I often encounter, when I present agile or stoosian ideas to managers. They feel that their employees are either not skilled or bright enough (something Denning addresses http://onforb.es/HQ8i6J) or just don't have the right attitude ("I don't want to have responsibility.").
I haven't found a good set of arguments against this yet and I'd like to use this session to a) see what opinions others have on this topic and b) create a set of arguments against (or for!) the view that you need bright people in order to able to run projects/companies in a stoosian way.
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