Shuttleworth Discussion on Storytelling
[10:24:21] Kathi Fletcher: MJ -- I am always impressed by the documentation -- do you ever have trouble getting everyone on the team to keep everything updated and public? [10:24:35] Esra'a Al Shafei: Agreed with KF - best documentation I've seen by an org [10:24:35] Helen Turvey: ooo - good question KF [10:24:54] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: Interesting. While we put out a lot - [10:25:15] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: we are missing tons of the 'comprehensive story line' of the relevance of this going in a very particular direction. [10:25:29] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: It's a huge heartache for me, but I am intending to get this straight. [10:25:48] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: It looks like a bunch of disorganized footage now, we need to do better. [10:25:49] Kathi Fletcher: I wish we could get more of our design process public. The code is easy, but exactly what you say -- the rationale -- sometimes gets lost. [10:25:58] Helen Turvey: what do you mean by compre story line? [10:26:06] Helen Turvey: is that it - the rationale? [10:26:25] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: Story line - means not rationale - but more... [10:26:46] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: Narrative. A clear narrative of how one development follows another, and where exactly it's headed. [10:26:59] Kathi Fletcher: Story is a more powerful metaphor. [10:27:05] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: I feel we don't capture that, and some people are [10:27:10] Helen Turvey: you are v good at doing that in person [10:27:53] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: So I need to sit down with Rob, documentation manager, and write a few good scripts on the technical and societal narratives. [10:28:09] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: I miss these. [10:28:36] Helen Turvey: it will be great to see - looking forward to seeing it tie together [10:29:09] Arthur Attwell: Looking forward to seeing how you do that -- will be instructive for us, too. We need to get better at telling stories. [10:29:56] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: It am on a different plane in terms of the overall design requirement - and lots of times people argue about how things are done/designed/etc - I need to be a little more 'dictatorial' or there's too much talk and no action.l [10:30:27] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: That's my perspective - it simply takes time to convey the rationale. [10:30:52] Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.: But I think good documentation/reporting will help this over the next 2 years. As we get this thing done.
Thrashing at the End of a Project
On how people fear product release:
What I've seen Seth Godin call 'thrashing at the end of a project' -- we make all new recruits watch this: http://the99percent.com/videos/5822/seth-godin-quieting-the-lizard-brain/
[10:36:28] Helen Turvey: re: EAS's point: and one needs to grow fast enough to drive the change you want to see, but slow enough to build the leaders out
