The "late surprise" problem
Ted Hardie
hardie at qualcomm.com
Fri Mar 21 09:52:15 CET 2003
In the spirit of stealing good ideas, I have plagiarized Harald below.
>
> this idea is fun!
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> two things that might improve the idea:
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> - colorize the SIRs. Routing clue has a green dot,
> internationalization clue has a blue dot, security clue has a black
> dot and so on - 5 or 6 categories. Require that reviewers have at
> least 3 different clues between them.
Without qualifying them as SIRs, we could do the same with working
group composition--you need
committed participants with at least 3 clue dot colors to have an
active working group.
The converse problem is that working groups commonly do have a narrow
view of a problem space,
and this creates a mechanism to get cross-clue input before decisions
are made (note that review
is inherently after decisions are made).
Ted
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