vladimirs ivanovs — how minions can help creating a complementary team and finding a bliss?
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HOW TO CREATE
A COMPLEMENTARY
TEAM AND FIND
A BLISS?
VLADIMIRS IVANOVS
AGILETRANSFORMER.COM
• Programming for PDP11 in 80’s
• Novell admin, PM in telco
• CIO in retail
• Consultant, trainer
VLADIMIRS IVANOVS
AGILETRANSFORMER.COM
WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
PROJECT MANAGER = LEADER
PROJECT
MANAGER
=
PERFECT MANAGER
?
4 PERSONAS
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
PRODUCER
• Bachelor in Computer Sciences
• Knows at least 3 Programming languages
• Promoted to PM because success
in technical lead role
• Creates tools, automates processes
• Extreme side - «The Lone Ranger»
• Works very hard, FISH (First In, Still Here)
• «YES» = «YES», «NO» = «NO»
• Does not train, does not delegate
• «WHAT?» oriented
• Busy solving today’s problems
• The Peter Principle «We promote people to the
level of their incompetence» is about him
4 PERSONAS
ADMINISTRATOR
• In charge of Release and Testing Process
• Loves Processes and Documentation
• In and out on time
• Desk clean, Manages «by the book»
• Extreme side - «Bureaucrat»
• Silence = «NO!»
• Typical answer: «NO!» = «MAYBE»
• «HOW?» oriented
• Focus on what Should be done
• Would rather do wrong things right
than the right things wrong
• - Did you had any language barriers?
- No, they did!
4 PERSONAS
ENTREPRENEUR
• Contributor, innovator
• Often changes direction and priorities
• No fixed time for meeting, coming & going
• No agenda, does all the talking
• Likes to see much activity, rushing, crisis
• Overloads subordinates
• Extreme side - «Arsonist»
• Silence = «YES!»
• Typical answer: «YES!» = «MAYBE»
• «WHY-NOT?» oriented
• Little appreciation for time, scope, budget
• Is first to propose Agile, DevOps, Lean etc
• Potential «Teacher»
4 PERSONAS
INTEGRATOR
• Integrity – a must for good Leader to have
• Compromising
• Listens well
• Sensitive to power play
• Spends his life in meetings, everyone talks
• Extreme side - «Super Follower»
• Typical answer: «Yes/No» = «MAYBE»
• «WHO?» oriented
• Potential «Good Right hand or Shepherd»
• «I don’t know the way to success, but the
key to failure is trying to please everybody»
Bill Cosby
MANAGEMENT STYLES (PAEI)
PROCEDURES,
SYSTEMS
HOW?
RESULTS
WHAT?
WHY-
NOT?
CREATIVITY,
CONTINUITY
WHO?
MOTIVATION,
CO-OPERATION
MISMANAGERS, MANAGERS
AND LEADERS
CONFLICT OF STYLES
9 CHARACTERISTICS
OF GOOD MANAGERS
1. Self-aware
2. Conscious
3. Well-rounded (no zeros in PAEI code)
4. Knows strenghts and weaknesses; know his uniqueness
5. Accepts strenghts, weaknesses, and uniqueness
6. Can identify excellence and weaknesses in others
7. Can accept and appreciate differences in others
8. Knows how to slow down and relax
9. Creates a learning environment, in which conflicts can be
resolved, by both commanding and granting mutual trust and
respect
Source: Ichak Adizes, «The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do about It»
HOW TO FIND A BLISS?
Dr. Ichak Adizes, world's leading expert on improving the performance of businessand government through fundamental change
MANAGERIAL JOB IS FAR TOO COMPLICATED
FOR ANY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL TO DO...
WE NEED A COMPLEMENTARY TEAM.
READING
CREDITS
1. Ichak Adizes, «Mastering Change (The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect)»
2. Ichak Adizes, «The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do about It»
3. Ichak Adizes, «Management and Mismanagement Styles»
4. Ichak Adizes, «Managing Corporate Lifecycles»
5. Blog, Leveraging 3 Primary Management Styles, http://corporatestrategiesbyskillpath.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/leveraging-3-primary-management-styles/
6. PAEI Project, http://paei.wikidot.com/adizes-methodology
7. Picture, http://www.pinterest.com/pin/345299496400794458/
8. Picture, http://f.pmo.ee/o/2014/11/13/3518977t1h5536.jpg
9. Picture, http://www.management.com.ua/events/adizes_2013-5.jpg
10. YouTube video «Adizes: What is a Leader» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SF0xSr5wW4
