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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nikchick" data-source="post: 902779" data-attributes="member: 344">Pramas worked for WotC for four years.  At least half of that time he was the Brand Development Manager, and later the Creative Director for miniatures.  The development for the Sundered Empire and the creation of the factions was Pramas. Because of the horrible, territorial way Wizards is set up  (it's a "matrix organization") they didn't just let the people who knew what they were doing actually *do* that.  Instead, it's all "Tell Bob in Accounting that you need boxes for your minis, and he will requisition the funds.  Then Bill in Purchasing will go to our Approved Vendors and they will get those boxes for you, at about 15x the going rate.  Need Graphics for the boxes?  Oh, you'll need to talk to they people in Spine Design, schedule a meeting for that. Advertising? You'll need to schedule that with Publications, have the Brand Manager deliver the text after Editing goes through it; who knew Black Dragons didn't breathe fire? ...Oops, did we mention you missed the deadline for this quarter?  Yes, the deadline for first quarter was Thursdays, but for second quarter we moved it to Tuesdays.  Hey, these boxes aren't to the size specifications required by the book trade, someone in Project Management should have noticed that... "It's all back-biting and prioritizing ("Don't bother me if your project isn't going to make 35 million in the first year, I've got better things to do...") and self-aggrandizing, or at least it was when they were trying to launch the WotC Chainmail game.  There were literally major project-changing decisions made because some big shot in the chain of command happened to walk by a room while a meeting was going on, popped his head in and decided today was the day he'd offer his two cents.  Think Dilbert.  It was EXACTLY like Dilbert.Pretty much all the complaints that people had about Chainmail were things that Pramas had already spotted and tried to convince the Powers That Be were a bad idea before they even hit the public radar. I don't think there's anywhere on the web that chronicles the whole sorry affair.  There used to be Chainmail message boards (Hi Kesh! /me waves) where a small bit of this stuff was discussed, but WotC started doing some heavy pruning of those boards and I think they've taken them down altogether now.Nicole</blockquote>

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