Thursday, June 29, 2006

Pow Wow

Yesterday, I got a document from my own "gang of four", as it was very apparent that they were not talking or communicating well. We had allocated two of our programmers to work on the "front end", and two of the programmers to work on the "back end". In theory, this sounds like a good plan.

After about a week of this, it became apparent that neither group was really excited about talking with the other group. The "introverts" were in the back-end group, and the "extroverts" were in the front-end. Who was working on the AJAX portion? Who was working on the XML formats? These questions were not being answered by the groups, and each group decided to go their own way with these .... non-trivial decisions.

So, I stuck them in a room, with a catered lunch, a whiteboard, and a notepad.

Six hours later, presto, document with defined requirements.

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