[469] in magellan
A few notes from our lunch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Fri Jun 2 14:15:32 2000
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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Good afternoon everyone,
At the celebration lunch for the IMAP Discovery team, I captured
these bullets during our discussion about the project. You may find some of
them useful for you in your work.
Many thanks,
Greg
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Thoughts from the IMAP Discovery Team celebration lunch:
Keep the project moving; if you ask for input from key participants and
that input is not forthcoming in a timely manner, then you should move the
work forward. It's important to ask for input, and it's important to keep
the work moving without an answer.
Determine how to rely less on team meetings. In our environment, team
members have multiple duties and are busy. Leverage the individual's time
to get the work done; rely more on the web pages - project notebook; and,
assume that work gets done outside of team meetings.
Establish good communications inside and outside of the team; diminish
surprises; use forums such as *MG's and others to be open and explicit
about the work and issues.
Begin working on the final report very early; the end of the project should
be un-eventful. Build an outline for the deliverables in the report and
begin to work on those as decisions are made and milestones are
accomplished.
