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<blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5204053" data-attributes="member: 85362"><p>My (entirely unfounded) suspicion is that there is a lot of project management strife that is keeping any new digital tools from being developed. I don't mean personal wars, but just poor direction and improper resource allocation.</p><p></p><p>"I want you five guys to work on the Character Visualizer? Can you do that while handling the updates for Adventure Tool and Character Builder?"</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, but we need a better system for inputting the data in..."</p><p></p><p>"That's great!"</p><p></p><p>TWO MONTHS LATER</p><p></p><p>"So how's the Character Visualizer?"</p><p></p><p>"Um, we haven't really gotten past the alpha stage?"</p><p></p><p>"I thought you could do it!"</p><p></p><p>"Yeah but the DDI updates are a priority and I was trying to tell you we have to hand type in all the new info from the books."</p><p></p><p>"That's not so hard!"</p><p></p><p>"And the RPGA materials."</p><p></p><p>"Manageable."</p><p></p><p>"And the Dragon and Dungeon content."</p><p></p><p>"Okay, stop updates on the Monster Builder... and shift priorities to the Campaign Manager!"</p><p></p><p>TWO MONTHS LATER</p><p></p><p>"This Campaign Manager is terrible! No one would use an interface like this!"</p><p></p><p>"Well, Chris does and he's happy with it!"</p><p></p><p>"Change it!"</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, Rodney liked it, but then Mike said it sucked. We need an interface we can agree on."</p><p></p><p>"Are you ordering me?"</p><p></p><p>"No, I'm just saying..."</p><p></p><p>"You're all fired! I'm replacing you all with Farmville developers!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ourchair, post: 5204053, member: 85362"] My (entirely unfounded) suspicion is that there is a lot of project management strife that is keeping any new digital tools from being developed. I don't mean personal wars, but just poor direction and improper resource allocation. "I want you five guys to work on the Character Visualizer? Can you do that while handling the updates for Adventure Tool and Character Builder?" "Yeah, but we need a better system for inputting the data in..." "That's great!" TWO MONTHS LATER "So how's the Character Visualizer?" "Um, we haven't really gotten past the alpha stage?" "I thought you could do it!" "Yeah but the DDI updates are a priority and I was trying to tell you we have to hand type in all the new info from the books." "That's not so hard!" "And the RPGA materials." "Manageable." "And the Dragon and Dungeon content." "Okay, stop updates on the Monster Builder... and shift priorities to the Campaign Manager!" TWO MONTHS LATER "This Campaign Manager is terrible! No one would use an interface like this!" "Well, Chris does and he's happy with it!" "Change it!" "Yeah, Rodney liked it, but then Mike said it sucked. We need an interface we can agree on." "Are you ordering me?" "No, I'm just saying..." "You're all fired! I'm replacing you all with Farmville developers!" [/QUOTE]
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