Hmostafa Rizk

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Agile Sw Development is a light methodology, yet not completed in every aspect. but still showed good results..

check http://agilemanifesto.org/
Good.. so should this tell me that having different management styles in the place harmful specially when they don't have much in common
example, one style is never apply rules or discipline, give excuses to people, seek to be loved and never in dispute...another is have rule, give excuses but with needed discipline, seek to be respected, and funny with limit to not spoil the business relationship or work quality...another is be harsh, firm, no excuses, follow rules, policies, and procedures, few fun around (a very traditional kind)

and what to advice management with different manager styles in it, how shall these members align their activities and paradigm well, for the better of the place..i always see that people can change for better goal, i'm not so much found of laying off, to get right people is the best, laying off is kind of not preferred (as it is the place's fault to hire them from the beginning), but adjusting who are willing to is the best, but surely needs right plan, and the issue here is to get the RIGHT person to put such a plan , which is the MAIN thing, agree?
Very interesting..totally agree with you, it is really nice to see real analysis of the situation...if the problem is in the environment and management, then how it can be approached, according to what i understood from you, i see that change should start from the top then so it can get to the executives and workers level well applied, right? or does lean or agile advocates and consultants recommend working vertically on the change?
So, what are the main qualities to hire people to work in lean, or agile companies...or what agile team members should have in common in terms of professional and personal qualities.. how do i feel sure i'm getting the right people on board for my agile environment
what i meant by Traditional people in our context was Traditional workers, who do not want to know new approaches like lean or agile and terrified of changing anything they used to do in some way to another.

Why do Technical people in particular feel uncomfortable when changing their working approach, why is it hard to be aligned easily as business people in IT organizations, what is open issues or risky elements those technical guys see and others don't...as i always use to hear from management that technical guys don't really know how to do anything but coding, and i don't think so but sometimes i see it real
I am with you about not having a real value or even credibility for a project manager who is only an administrator who runs with schedule and requests update... i see a project manager is someone who plays the role of customer engagement with clients, business analyst, and also do the project management activities for his project for the sake of client requirements, quality and time needs, and for the sake of his team professional development, team work, and new business experiences.

but i wonder if a project Manager is better to be a technical person, like originally a developer and chose to change his career to project management, as i see new trend for agile management staff to apply, is this proficient? does this degrade the need for having business project manager, with good technical background which helps him or her in communicating well in projects?

Also, in agile projects, how project manager shifts his paradigm, to still cover needed details as in the projects management process groups and knowledge area?
Mary, you said, Agile teams ALWAYS improve things, i see that agile teams or people should have certain qualities to be selected with to be with specific attitude and behavior to apply, or can the change be applied for normal traditional people and still give positive results in being agile team member?
Traditional Project managers face change in the new lean and agile development methodologies with a shock, how project manager still that important role to have in lean development, and in what scale?