On 5 April 2012 02:05, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? > > In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is > self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to > primarily set that team up for success, hire the right people, replace > the people who aren't working out, and help escalate/resolve blocker > or coordination issues outside the team's scope. Putting so much > responsibility on the team's shoulders is in my opinion a good thing, > because it treats them as adults accountable and responsible for the > success or failure of their own work.
What about personal development? Do your managers play an active role in helping their reports develop with objectives, feedback, training, etc? I imagine doing that for so many reports would be extremely time consuming. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
