On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 6:49:16 PM, Ken Boucher wrote:
> These decisions are made by people instead of processes. People tend
> to be a lot more flexible, creative, and knowledgeable than fixed
> processes. They may use a process to guide them, but they use their
> own intelligence to make sure the decision is the right one.
AFAIK, no one is suggesting that a process should be making decisions. We
were talking about your suggested GUI / Model team breakout. I was making
the point that inter-team interfaces tend to be "hot spots", and was
formerly interested in the rationale behind your existing team structure,
with an eye to using the real situation to illuminate the idea. Apparently
the real situation is so fluid and perfectly executed by the people that
there's nothing to talk about.
I gather that a GUI / Model team split, if you were to try it, would be the
first split in your organization that is capable of being described in a
few words, and that even so, it wouldn't really be a split anyway, since
folks would just move to new standup meetings willy-nilly.
That's why I take your descriptions to be saying, anyway. My actual guess
is that a visitor to your space would notice coherent blobs of people doing
coherent things, and that these coherences would have discernible
persistence over time, so that days, weeks, or even months later, the
observer would find things that she recognized. Things would be different,
but some would be the same. Kind of like waves, perhaps. Same wave,
different water.
I could be wrong about that guess. It might really be that things are as
dynamic as you described, and that my limited mind just can't grasp that.
Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
One never knows, do one? -- Fats Waller
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