[BSDCert] Announcement: Task Analysis Survey Launched

[Jason Dixon]

On Apr 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Andreas Hauser wrote:

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> From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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>   committee
>        n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a
>             committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours"
>             - Milton Berle [syn: {commission}]
>        2: a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn:  
> {citizens
>           committee}]
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> I was advocating the community approach not the committee approach.
> The current approach was a committee in the second sense, which was
> in my opinion pretty OK up the point of testing the survey,
> at which point i would have appreciated involving the community.

And yet, definition #1 is what usually occurs when dozens (hundreds?)  
of disparate individuals attempt to come to a consensus on new  
material.  It is much more efficient and productive to get an initial  
version out and allow the community to offer constructive criticism  
where appropriate.  There is no need to solicit the entire community's  
input for the draft of a questionnaire.

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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