There's always beer involved. ;) But no, this was a full-on collaboration that I initiated with the engineering VP and the product architect. It took some convincing, but a few flow charts later and we were good to go. You have to cover all bases and have a contingency for everyone on all sides should something slip (and outline consequences). But it's nothing that isn't possible to plan for, and is exactly the type of work anyone in any kind of project management/leadership role should be doing anyway.
But beer... there were a couple of fellow homebrewers on the engineering side whom I knew, and a bunch of cooking nuts/foodies as well. So there was rapport there from the beginning with quite a few folks. I would get hops from one guy and return to him beer made with them. Another team member (a writer) kept bees, and I'd return to him beer made with the honey. But that was all really aside from the main push. I had little rapport initially (in fact, some tension) with the product architect going into it, but through planning and negotiation we were able to work things out. We were never buddies, but we ironed out the wrinkles in our working relationship. Of course, the entire project team (locals, anyway) would meet up every 2 weeks for an after-work pressure venting session at a local bar. Working 70-90 hours a week takes its toll (company tweaked its work from home policy and even paid for our home broadband), and it was nice to have that kind of break in a relaxed environment. Beer, wings, billiards, darts, and even karaoke. All good. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jeff Coatsworth <jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com> wrote: > Ooooh! They won't fall for your Jedi mind-tricks! I bet there's beer involved > in this somewhere, right Bill? -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog: http://techcommdood.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/techcommdood _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
