On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 00:54, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> [...] I can't push on them much harder than their management
> would to "give it an honest try", which is about how hard I'd push anyway.
>
> In those decades, I have worked with a very large number of programmers and
> I have found most of them to be people of good will, who want to succeed in
> the eyes of their management and their peers. As such, they are amenable to
> the right kind of influence in almost every case.
Agreed! The hardest cases I come across are paradoxically, the ones who
most want to do good. They have had enough bad experiences trying to
improve things that they're deeply cynical, and are reluctant to risk
another disappointment.
It's because of people like them that I've become pretty choosy about
the agile adoption work I take on. If I'm not pretty sure the company
provides enough support to make a lasting change, I won't take the work.
The last thing I want to do is raise people's hopes and then dash them,
making a hard case even harder.
William
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