Navigating the Rough Seas of Software Project Resistance: Four Project Manager Personas to Help Bring the Ship Safely to Harbor
Mustapha Cheikh‐Ammar, Simon Bourdeau, Jessica Darveau · IEEE Software · 2020
We analyze software project resistance by focusing on its nature, object, and stage of development. Our results highlight four archetypical personas-coach, doctor, politician, and priest-that software project managers can assume when their projects face resistance.