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[liralen]

I'll admit it...

I'm a MB "N" and it's is oddly satisfying to bring together all the things that my organization considers important and actually capture all the ruling concepts and come up with conceptual strategic objectives that really have a real "end" to keep in mind.

Maybe I just love the concept of really thinking through what the heck we want before we start going and doing all the things to get there. I like having an architectural plan and a blue print before the first spade-full of dirt is dug and the foundations are laid, dangit. It's hard work, it's getting all the stuff in all our heads down onto paper and trying out all the ideas before laying the dang concrete.

I like that.

I am, however, exhausted again having to interact with eight other people constantly for two solid days straight.

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[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love that too. It's such a good use of time.

I'm currently working with a group of 5 people doing collaborative architecture full time, pretty much. We've been at it for a few weeks, and will be doing nothing but this through the end of the month. We're designing the core of a system that we'll be working on for the next several years, and it's great to have this much upfront group design work. We're developing a system that's much more thought out than if we'd just leaped in and started coding against a deadline.

If we do this right, and come up with good tech specs, life should be much more managable for the long term. That's always a good tradeoff.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Yes. It makes work so much more focussed.

Cool to hear that you're doing it, too.