Hi Jem Minutes, a song *and* a glossary! You are setting an awfully high bar for minutes taking in GGF WGs.... :-) Andreas Treadwell, Jem wrote:
Hi, for some reason working on the minutes this morning kept reminding me of the the following song, which I realized might be a useful case study of resource management. It was published back in 1962, by a British academic named Bernard Cribbins (http://www.answers.com/topic/bernard-cribbins) - think of him as the British working man's Tom Lehrer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer). I suspect all the Brits and their children will know the song pretty well, but I doubt if it's well known anywhere else.
The resource in question was a piano, and the management task was to get it out of a house. The process they followed is roughly the same as the modern-day working group process of repeatedly taking a stab at a problem and then heading for the bar (and slipping the schedule) when it proves too difficult, but the language is particularly British, so for those who are unfamiliar I've included a Glossary. :0)
- Jem