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The Pajamas Test
Michael Aucoin, D. Engr., PE, PMP is president of Leading Edge Management, LLC in College Station, Texas and author of Right-Brain Project Management: A Complementary Approach. He can be reached at [email protected].
When my wife and I took our first vacation, I suggested that we find lodging when we arrived at the destination. Unfortunately, there was no vacancy anywhere,except for a dive of a mobile home converted into a motel room. We spent way too much of a short vacation looking for a place to stay--and fighting about my unwise suggestion to be flexible on lodging.
This event was our first significant encounter with a difference in personality types, one that is relevant to agile project management teams. Several years later, we learned of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) system for describing personality preferences and had a good laugh over our lodging woes.
An important aspect of Right Brain Project Management is respecting and working with the emotional makeup of human beings, who after all are the ones executing the project. Each of us has personality preferences that form how we see and interact with the world around us. In uncomfortable situations that take us outside of our preference areas, we may feel negative emotions and resist…not the sort of thing that helps on a project. We have much to gain by respecting and working with personality preferences, so let’s talk about how that works on the agile project--and in doing so we’ll end up in our favorite comfortable pajamas.
One of the preference areas in the MBTI is the Judging (J)/…
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