2. Based on
a talk and materials
by
David Neary
www.slideshare.net/nearyd/community-antipatterns
communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Anti-patterns
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13. Symptoms
•Volunteers start work (or claim so)
•Infrequent or vague progress reports
•Others cannot do work as is in progress
•Hand over resisted
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19. Treatment
•Good docs
•Encourage other newbies to answer
•Encourage self help with pointers not answers
•Let me google it for you (and others)
•Walk the line between RTFM and being a crutch
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22. Symptoms
•Company keeps control
•Community are all employees
•Dual licence + commercial pressure + process
•Water cooler decisions, big show, day 1 commit
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23. Treatment
•Founding companies need to embrace the chaos
•Exchange influence for control
•Work in glass houses with policies for progress
•If it didn't happen on the list it didn't happen
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28. Symptoms
•Discussions about relatively unimportant issues
•Endless extensive debate
•Everyone has their say (me too)
•One discussion drowns out others
•Related to decision paralysis
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