Comments on: The power of authority http://welovenicethings.com/2009/05/03/the-power-of-authority/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elena http://welovenicethings.com/2009/05/03/the-power-of-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Elena Sun, 10 May 2009 16:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.dev/?p=75#comment-7 You raise some good points here - especially getting to the up-front agreement to a process which is then used to control the volume of changes. I've also found it useful to agree who has decision-making authority early on e.g. does the designer, project manager or user/customer have final say on how a particular requirement will be delivered (note that I'm not saying *which* requirements will be delivered, let's assume the decision on that are already made or addressed via another process)? Finally, I've also found that giving the customer a choice e.g. "we can either change the design of XXX or go live on July the 1st as planned" can certainly help focus the mind :-) You raise some good points here - especially getting to the up-front agreement to a process which is then used to control the volume of changes.

I’ve also found it useful to agree who has decision-making authority early on e.g. does the designer, project manager or user/customer have final say on how a particular requirement will be delivered (note that I’m not saying *which* requirements will be delivered, let’s assume the decision on that are already made or addressed via another process)?

Finally, I’ve also found that giving the customer a choice e.g. “we can either change the design of XXX or go live on July the 1st as planned” can certainly help focus the mind :-)

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