37. Talk Then Write
The project team makes decisions during conversations, and then immediately communicates the decisions in writing.
At first reading, this may appear to be nothing more than a statement of the obvious: When you conduct a meeting, you should distribute minutes afterward. We might also conclude it was obvious if we didn’t see so many teams operating differently, and suffering for it.
When it comes time to make a decision, you want to do it well and you want to do it quickly. Time is short on development projects. Sometimes, making a decision is on the critical path; resources are blocked, or will soon become blocked, until a decision ...
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