One mark of a good manager is that they *get* it

[jducoeur]

May I just note how pleasant it is to have a product manager, who has been doing product management for 20 years, mostly in the traditional ways, who not only isn't fighting my push for the company to move to a more Agile approach, but is actually pretty much backing my play? At its best, Agile is just recognizing the realities of development and flowing with them; he's learned enough from experience to pretty intuitively grasp why the approach makes sense. This is, needless to say, making my life as de facto project manager much easier...