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livingdebI participated in real teamwork at work today!
The problem: In this one situation, audits don't show that your course is counting until you've taken all the required courses for that one requirement.
My first thought: Arg, my brain is going to hurt! I hate this crazy complex requirement!
My first semi-useful idea: Ask the Registrar's Office to fix the processing so that the audit shows the best option rather than the last option. Knowing that they will refuse again.
Her first idea: Simplify the rule so it doesn't have that problem, but instead has another problem which is much less frustrating for students and their advisors.
Post-meeting final idea: Simplify the rule so that it works perfectly. (Hope that none of the reasons it had to be complicated remain--we know some of the reasons and how they disappeared, but do we remember all of them?)
We tested with over 40 students. Their audits all worked perfectly. Woo hoo!
The paranoia: Surely we're missing something. This has happened so many times before. We find a problem, we figure out a tweak. Ad infinitum.
But maybe the problems are now all fixed! Maybe this is a perfect solution that we worked out together as a team, alternately proposing ideas, poking holes in them, being flabbergasted that we can't find holes, and then the magical whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts thing happens.
The problem: In this one situation, audits don't show that your course is counting until you've taken all the required courses for that one requirement.
My first thought: Arg, my brain is going to hurt! I hate this crazy complex requirement!
My first semi-useful idea: Ask the Registrar's Office to fix the processing so that the audit shows the best option rather than the last option. Knowing that they will refuse again.
Her first idea: Simplify the rule so it doesn't have that problem, but instead has another problem which is much less frustrating for students and their advisors.
Post-meeting final idea: Simplify the rule so that it works perfectly. (Hope that none of the reasons it had to be complicated remain--we know some of the reasons and how they disappeared, but do we remember all of them?)
We tested with over 40 students. Their audits all worked perfectly. Woo hoo!
The paranoia: Surely we're missing something. This has happened so many times before. We find a problem, we figure out a tweak. Ad infinitum.
But maybe the problems are now all fixed! Maybe this is a perfect solution that we worked out together as a team, alternately proposing ideas, poking holes in them, being flabbergasted that we can't find holes, and then the magical whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts thing happens.