I've been the manager in this situation. After a week of my team floundering, I just skipped to panel four, and told them that the execs had made a decision. Nobody ever checked.
I think I had ONE exec ask why a UI choice was made after I'd told the team, which caused a few side eyes from my developers. I said "you said this was okay in the meeting three weeks ago, remember?", and he said "oh, that's right, I did".
It's much easier to get forgiveness than permission.
The general rule is that competent, capable, reasonable people don't take months to make simple decisions, so you don't need to resort to parlour tricks like this to get around them in the first place.
And the ones that do have the memory of a goldfish, and aren't going to challenge you when you say they'd made a decision, because they either believe they did and didn't remember it, or they still haven't decided, and they aren't about to admit that.
I worked on a project where the software was used in the medical industry. We had strict rules for which colors could be used and when, so it should have been an easy matter to decide and move on. But it always took 3-6 months of meetings before the originally-suggested color could be okayed.
I worked at a company that got a new health care provider, and every employee got a free (as in mandatory) checkup.
The lead (and only) UI designer in the team turned out to have protopanopia (red/green colour blindness). Given that the displays were using green for success, and red for failure, this explained a lot of his design decisions.
I've been the manager in this situation. After a week of my team floundering, I just skipped to panel four, and told them that the execs had made a decision. Nobody ever checked.
I think I had ONE exec ask why a UI choice was made after I'd told the team, which caused a few side eyes from my developers. I said "you said this was okay in the meeting three weeks ago, remember?", and he said "oh, that's right, I did".
It's much easier to get forgiveness than permission.
if only everything was as easy as.... remember you said it 3 weeks ago.... oh right, i did...
lol, life would be smooth as butter...
The general rule is that competent, capable, reasonable people don't take months to make simple decisions, so you don't need to resort to parlour tricks like this to get around them in the first place.
And the ones that do have the memory of a goldfish, and aren't going to challenge you when you say they'd made a decision, because they either believe they did and didn't remember it, or they still haven't decided, and they aren't about to admit that.
good insight : )
I worked on a project where the software was used in the medical industry. We had strict rules for which colors could be used and when, so it should have been an easy matter to decide and move on. But it always took 3-6 months of meetings before the originally-suggested color could be okayed.
To quote 'The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy' (radio version):
Chairman: Yes, and, and, and the wheel. What about this wheel thingy? Sounds a terribly interesting project to me.
Marketing girl: Er, yeah, well we’re having a little, er, difficulty here…
Ford: Difficulty?! It’s the single simplest machine in the entire universe!
Marketing girl: Well alright mister wise guy, if you’re so clever you tell us what colour it should be!
Make it all green! 💚✅🧩❎✳️🟩🟢📗❇️🔰🧪♻️ Until someone realizes that most of our big ticket buyers have deuteronopia. 🙄
I worked at a company that got a new health care provider, and every employee got a free (as in mandatory) checkup.
The lead (and only) UI designer in the team turned out to have protopanopia (red/green colour blindness). Given that the displays were using green for success, and red for failure, this explained a lot of his design decisions.
LOL!