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Re: Mentor Roles
I would love to have a anthropologist study this situation. I think students go primal and do much of what they do out of instinct because the feel the stress and pressure of a looming deadline. Time decay is everyone's worst enemy. Finding leadership and building a team bond are the most important things you can do right now. If everyone doesn't wake up and get on the same plan, <insert a sports analogy>.
Its hard to step back look at the scenario and then figure out the best way to triage it. I would approach it like you do at work, or in a 2 minute drill in football. First step, clean slate.
Step 1) Clean slate. Forget everything up to today.
Step 2) Do what you do best. Take a simple plan, a stupidly simple design. Run with it. Be disciplined, classify everything into a Day 1 feature or a Day 2 feature. You'll get to Day 2 after Day 1 is delivered.
Step 3) Deliver ASAP. This is the time where everyone digs deep and puts something out there.
When dealing with people that don't get on board with the initial plan,
I'd respond to a lot of questions similar to "I don't get it". They will point to something that they did already, and then I'll just say "I don't get it". Over time it works. But building team bond and trust, then getting everyone on the same page with simplicity is the first step to recovery.
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