Re: should we ressurect design teams? (was: this is insane.)

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker at brandenburg.com>]

At 10:37 AM 12/14/98 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>I suppose I really meant "make more regular use of". Some areas do not 
>make sufficient use of design teams.

This gets to the heart of the more serious issue, namely working group
management.  

Previous documentation and formalization of working group management has
attended to the building blocks, such as giving formal position for design
teams, and emphasizing to working group chairs the kinds of authority (and
expectations) that reside in the working group.

Perhaps we should go the next level and document some guidance about the
best ways to run different "categories" of working groups?  A WG with a
relatively straightforward deliverable and a relatively small and
homogeneous participation base can use a very different management style
from one that has complex (poorly understood) goals, and large or
heterogeneous participation base.

d/

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