[xmlWiki-developers] Minutes; October 4th meeting

[Arnaldo C. <ar...@mi...>]

Folks,
    Before I leave on a 4-day trip (be back mid-Monday), I wanted to =
send out the results of tonight's meeting (before I checked out of the =
meeting anyway.
    It was very productive (and I'm attaching the transcript in a text =
file).  All but two of our group were in attendance, and meeting results =
are tentative pending the buy-in from those two group members.
    Item 1:  We fired the manager.
        We discussed the traditional role of manager, and what it meant, =
and decided that the term "manager" would not accurately describe the =
role of any one individual on our team.  So, we divided up his/her =
duties among the group members and gave him/her the pink slip.  For more =
details, see the attached transcript.
    Item 2:  Tentative roles  (roles with new names described below)
        "Quality champion" - Abe.  Abe will, throughout the process, =
check for quality.  I.e. (Is the project plan viable (reality check); =
are documents /reports complete and consistent)
        "Tracker" - Jim.  Jim will do the metrics "by definition".
        "Facilitator/Communicator" - Arnaldo will be the POC for the =
course staff and will be responsible for presenting the tracker =
artifacts "in a nice format".  Jim and Arnaldo's role will most likely =
bleed into each other a bit, so they'll be working rather closely =
together.
*Note* - distilling a concise definition for every role is on my "to do" =
list.  (and is a good example of the type of thing I intend to do as =
facilitator/communicator).
        "Coach" - Hugo.
        "Customer" - Hugo.
        "Programmer" - Arnaldo, Deborah, Radu, Jim, Abe, Bola, Chris.
        One of the first items on Monday's meeting will be to move these =
tentative roles to "actual" status, or to change them if necessary.
    Item 3:  Our next meeting is Monday at 8PM CST.  Send me agenda =
items that you think we need to cover, and if I get back in time, I'll =
put them together and send out a meeting agenda before our Monday =
meeting.
--Arnaldo