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Committees and Directors

Outcome Many things are going to effect getting something done, in this case building a system or creating software. Though I think the following could be said about just about any collaborative effort. There are three concepts to keep in mind, one is design by committee , the second a saying I picked up at Cable & Wireless from a director I worked for : "There should always be an odd number of decisions makers, and three is too many" And the third concept, which I was lucky enough to have a senior exec from Accenture remind me of recently is : "Given that a qualified professional experienced person (i.e. me) trusts their judgement and ability to learn from mistakes, the more time you spend making decisions, the more you get correct and the more that gets done." It's a simple formula that rests on the 80/20 rule stating : If I make the right choice 80% of the time, then the more choices I make and act on the more I'll get right over time. The opposite be

A Mandelbrot Tornado

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Once again it looks like a good walk home pondering, and some thinking about how mother nature does things and an idea just appears....... Windy maelstrom Working up (or back depending on where you are) it's likely that you are in some kind of structure which resembles the following (in a software place that is); someone with money and an idea or desire, and some people they have hired to get that done. Now if there is enough work (or a wide enough scope), the people in the middle likely end up getting more people to do the actual work. Which brings me to the analogy, of a tornado . At the top you'll have quite a large influence looking out over the savannah of business with a view granted by elevation (CEO vision, company direction, etc). Now at this top level, there are large ideas and big plans, large slow moving schemes and strategies, slow relative to day to day implementation that is. Ideas of months, quarters and years. The Mandelbrot Effect Now the next area (middle in