Track: Business Drivers and Challenges in Software Development

Abstract: Your developers are claiming to be a "self-organizing team." They won't tell you a %-complete for any of the tasks they wouldn't let you assign to them from the detailed work breakdown they wouldn't provide. They give estimates as Small, Medium and Large. They're running around all over the business talking to people. Even customers. What are you supposed to do now? The new challenge for managers of software development is to make best use of team behaviours that are effective but startling, efficient but a challenge to the organisation, risk-reducing but outlandish-sounding. This newly rediscovered style of development needs management to rediscover a style, too - one that involves making real decisions and taking real responsibility. Using real cases this session will explore the exiting new world of real management in IT.