Moving Rocks, Hauling Water

Caros Leitores,

Compartilho com vocês um trecho muito interessante de um livro que estou lendo "Agile Project Management" da Addison Wesley.

Trata-se de dois conceitos simples sobre como os Gerentes de Projetos (considerando uma licença poética sobre a texto original em inglês) podem aplicar para aumentarem o resultado e as entregas do time.


Project leaders contribute directly to delivering results by removing impediments (moving rocks) and providing resources (hauling water). When individuals are waiting for resources, they lose productivity, but more importantly they lose time. Examples of resources include computers, lab equipment, and staff assistance.

Moving rocks can also include ensuring that critical dependencies between feature teams or with outside sources as well managed. Rather than doing the work, the project leader ensures that everyone has the resources to do his or her work.

This style of project management is one of providing services to the team - an approach Robert Greenleaf called "servant leadership" - rather than having the team "work for" the manager.

Leaders also remove roadblocks that impede the team from working efficiently. For example, project and iteration leaders need to quickly and effectively resolve impediments that are voiced in daily team stand-up meeting. Roadblocks can be things such as resources (the team doesn't have them), information (the team can't get it from a customer), or decisions (a stakeholder manager hasn't made them in timely fashion).

Fonte: trecho extraído do livro "Agile Project Management", editora Addison Wesley, pág. 233.