Matt May recently posted an article on the Blue Flavor blog entitled Tearing down the factory. He speaks of ridding development teams of the production line attitude, where each person is only responsible for one thing, and when they are down it passes to the next person in line. He relates an experience he had that demonstrates this idea:
I could only watch in horror as an art director came in from the outside and froze the developers out of the design process entirely. It was a formula for bad design: the “final” design deliverable not only contained critical technical and interaction flaws, it actually reintroduced some of the very same user experience problems we had worked hard to eliminate.
He goes on to talk about how no one person should ever have full veto control over others in the team, and how communication and respect is a necessity to thrive and be successful.
It’s a great article and I just want to pass it on, as it deserves the attention.
via Digital Web
