Thoughts?
You need to use the Wisdom and Creativity of the Crowd as SANITY CHECK.
This is impossible if you don't do
detailed proposals
before the allocation of resources. If you do so, you get to map
potential flaws,
suggested improvements and
creative alternatives. If you don't, you'll be stuck with an idea born only of the faith the team or even one person has in it.
Bytemaster has been doing this type of sanity check since 2010, and that why everyone trusts him; because he doesn't simply have faith in his own judgement.In addition to this critique of specific ideas, I would also argue that you need to involve the community in a) the very positing of ideas, and b) in the bigger picture.
a) Involve the community in the positing of ideas by asking them to suggest
alternative ideas. For instance, in the obi-wan meme thread the question remains,
why only obi-wan memes?.
b) Involve the community in the bigger picture by presenting it
in detail. The big picture plan you have mapped out for the next year
is just an idea like any other, it needs the same type of sanity check as all other ideas.
It is a radical way to run a company and the legitimate objections I find is first, that openness about plans will allow others to sue, exploit or steal the ideas, and second, that it might lag the implementation process.