Category: respect

Seven Principles of Lean Software Development - Respect People

September 4, 2008 by Przemysław Bielicki

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Software organizations have surprisingly more problems managing people than managing soulless machines. People are also surprised when they ask me what my job is all about and I tell them that I work with people most of the time. "But you are a software engineer - isn't your job about working with computers?". "You're partially right because I work in a team and program a computer using programming language to do what you want to do is much easier than >>program<< my colleagues to work with me to reach our team's goals" - I tell them.

Working in a team means not only solving technical problems, designing stuff and make decisions together. One of the most important factor that makes teams successful is Respect.

In this post I will try to explain "Respect People" principle from "Implementing Lean Software Development - from Concept to Cash" book.

XP Values: Respect

October 22, 2007 by Artem Marchenko

Extreme Programming values are the primary guidelines to be used whenever it is not clear how to resolve the particular situation. Value of respect is special in that it is the only Extreme Programming value not present in the first edition of the Extreme Programming Explained. Kent Beck added it to the second edition basing on how the first book has been interpreted in many companies out there. Extreme Programming is no fixed mechanical process that anybody could be forced doing.