Chapter 8
Why Management (Still) Matters
Right now, your company has 21st-century Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th-century management principles.
Gary Hamel 1
The Future of Management, 2007
Introduction
With the advent of agile, many in the IT community have adopted a no managers needed here philosophy. 2 While self-directed development teams have certainly shifted the role of managers, we believe very strongly that managers are an essential key to enabling and sustaining positive change in IT. Great managers provide the support needed to nurture people development, both technically and socially, as well as creating a culture of transparency. Often it is managers (and no ...
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