79. Paper Mill

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The organization measures progress by the weight and number of documents produced to date.

A project is a voyage for understanding a problem well enough to be able to come up with a solution that fits a given set of constraints. During the voyage, various aspects of the growing understanding need to be communicated to a diverse set of stakeholders. And this understanding is usually communicated using a mixture of paper and electronic documents. The questions you need to ask in designing this communication are: What content are you trying to communicate? and, What are the most effective media for communicating it? Failure to address ...

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