sub-team tension???

[114gopher]

There will always be some sort of tension, one group wants this done, one group wants this, and just not enough people/resources to get it done. I cannot stress the importance of communication in order to help alleviate (not solve, for this problem will always exist) this issue. We did have one issue this year where one of our groups flat out refused to do something for one of the other groups (change frame design a bit), which caused quite a bit of stress. We managed to figure out a way to work around it, but sometimes you need a central authority (Capitan/mentor/whoever) to have a talk with the parties involved, and help them to figure it out. All too often it is something silly like, "I didn't know that was/wasn't possible."
Don't stress though, it happens to everyone.

[StephLee]

Oh, definately some tension this year. Our programmers wanted to try castors this year, and our build team was dead against it...eventually, we agreed to try them, and now we're testing them. We'll make a decision soon, hopefully; but more importantly, since we tried them everyone should be happy.